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The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism
The framework for this book by economic historian Robert William Fogel, 1993 Nobel Prize“winner in economics, is borrowed, as the author fully acknowledges, from a work published in 1978:...
Rights, Animal and Human
Last year Harvard Law School offered its first“ever course on animal rights. This is good news for animal rights advocates, since Harvard is one of the two or three...
The Denomination Called Catholic
By now, nearly everyone has heard the statistics. From the end of Vatican II in 1965 to the present, the American Catholic Church has experienced dramatic drops in attendance...
Form Over Matter
Early in November 1995, the administrative board of the United States Catholic Conference issued the latest version of its quadrennial statement on politics and religion, this one entitled: “Political...
The Accent of Choice
As a lifelong Democrat and erstwhile liberal, I’m sorry to have to admit this-but I’m afraid a lot of Democrats and liberals have not been exactly gracious about their...
Right-Thinking About the Religious Right
It is amusing to see how alarmed all right-thinking people have become about that menacing phenomenon called “the Religious Right.” They are “extremists,” they are “out of the mainstream.”...
For Luddite Humanism
Now that researchers at George Washington University Medical Center have split human embryos, thereby producing genetically identical twin embryos, cloning human beings is on the table for national debate. Reactions...
