CONTENTS 3 summer 2014 vol. 56, no. 3 The End of Reading? R. V. Young 7 Balkanized Bureaucracy or Utopian Sanctuary? The Crisis in the Modern University Bryce J. Christensen 16 Burke's Catholic Conservatism Garrett Ward Sheldon 25 Why We Need God: Solzhenitsyn's The Red Wheel James F. Pontuso 32 Beyond Nihilism: Classical Realism and the Perils of Scientific Naturalism Reed Davis 47 Coimbra Night Cecília Meireles trans. William Baer 48 First Steps Starry Night Good Samaritan Sharon Fish Mooney ESSAYS POETRY REVIEWS 51 Two Versions of Strauss Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America by Paul Edward Gottfried Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy by Grant N. Havers Mark Shiffman 55 The Contours of Evil Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Buruma Jeffrey Folks 58 Science, Knowledge, and Understanding The Nature of Scientific Explanation by Jude P. Dougherty Thomas B. Fowler