Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square Egalitarian protestations to the contrary notwithstanding, every functional society has a class composed of those who wield concentrated political and economic power and who set its manners, or lack thereof. Within that class, different people do different things, and the most . . . . Continue Reading »

Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by daniel jonah goldhagenknopf, 622 pages, $30 It must be a heady experience. The son of a distinguished Holocaust scholar at Harvard turns his doctoral dissertation, which won the 1994 award of the American Political Science . . . . Continue Reading »

The Public Square Among the most powerful social and political forces of our time is the “pro-family” movement. Pressed by organizations such as Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council, as well as by the emphatic teaching of the Catholic Church, millions of Americans have . . . . Continue Reading »

An election year does strange things to . . . . Continue Reading »

The Public Square Ticking Crime Bomb” is a troubling article in the Weekly Standard by hard-nosed Princeton criminologist John J. DiIulio. While crime statistics have dipped recently, demographic and other forces are building for a big explosion in the near future. What to do? The best single . . . . Continue Reading »

The Public Square We did it in 1992, and now we’ve gone and done it again. After five full years of publication, we thought it time to survey our subscribers once more. We thank all of you who received the detailed questionnaire and took the time to answer our questions. Of course such a . . . . Continue Reading »

The Public Square Last fall the nation was seized by a spasm of race-related excitements. Not really, of course. Most people were going about their daily business. But the media had elected race as the crisis of the season, and the chattering classes couldn’t get enough of it. (But then, where . . . . Continue Reading »

“The religious person should not seek an accommodation with liberalism; he should seek to rout it from the field, to extirpate it, root and branch.” That is bracing stuff. Professor Fish makes a very important argument about, inter alia, religion, reason, liberalism, and tolerance. I will not . . . . Continue Reading »

The Public Square In a rare departure from the utter originality of these pages, parts of this commentary appeared in the Wall Street Journal and other publications here and abroad. So you never recycle? —RJN In an interview with a network news program, I was explaining what the forthcoming visit . . . . Continue Reading »

The Catholic university is born from the heart of the church and borne by the mission of the church. A university that is not integral to the Christian mission will in time become alien to the Christian . . . . Continue Reading »