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โ€‹Epic Ending

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 Canโ€™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 โ€œnaturallyโ€) 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,...