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Human Rights in Vienna
One can learn from unfortunate experiences. This truism applies in spades to the World Conference on Human Rights sponsored by the UN and held in Vienna in late June....
Why That God Failed
Retreat from the Finland Station: Moral Odysseys in the Breakdown of Communism by kenneth murphy free press, 415 pages, $24.95 The title of Kenneth Murphy’s work is an obvious...
A Contested Legacy
John Courtney Murray and the American Civil Conversation edited by Robert P. Hunt and Kenneth L. Grasso Eerdmans, 298 pages, $21.95 paper. Toward the end of Vatican Council II (1962-1965),...
The Inscrutable Sinologists
China Misperceived: American Illusions and Chinese Reality by steven w. mosher basic books, 260 pages, $19.95 Driven by the Tiananmen massacre of June 4, 1989, foreign perceptions of China...
Graham Greene as Moralist
Trust the tale and not the teller.d. h. lawrence How can one tell the dancer from the dance?w. b. yeats Graham Greene is a marvel. As long ago as...
