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Stanley Fish

Inside Paradise Lostby david quintprinceton, 344 pages, $35 Early on in Inside Paradise Lost, David Quint writes a sentence that is at once simple and, for this reader, simply...

Why We Can’t All Just Get Along

Stanley Fish

Whenever I teach Paradise Lost, the hardest thing to get across is that God is God. Students invariably (one is tempted to say “naturally”) fall in with the view...

Stanley Fish replies to Richard John Neuhaus

Stanley Fish

Father Neuhaus mistakes my position when he says (or implies) that I pit freedom of inquiry against truth or critical thought against a commitment to truth, or, more simply,...