American Politics
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Sexual and Related Disorders
“Years ago,” writes John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, “an old friend, now deceased, was…
San Francisco Sacred (II)
Several times during the San Francisco Opera’s (SFO) remarkable production of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking (which…
American Empire
Andrew Bacevich’s American Empire has to rank at or near the top of nominees for Most Frustrating…
Letter from Germany
There is no denying that German“U.S. relations were ruffled, if not rocked, by last September’s election. During…
San Francisco Sacred (I)
We do not customarily look to opera for moral edification. Examples abound: twins, separated at birth, reunite…
The Embodied Self
In the very first year of his papacy, Pope John Paul II planted a time bomb in…
The Virtue of Hate
In his classic Holocaust text, The Sunflower, Simon Wiesenthal recounts the following experience. As a concentration camp prisoner,…
The Hemlock and the Cross
In early July 1759, three friends met at an inn called the Windmill outside the German city…
Poetry(February 2003)
The Arts that sensuously address The raising of the consciousness Bloom in a spread of themes and…
Lincoln on Judicial Despotism
After the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education ordering the desegregation of…
Peddler of Paradise
Recently I witnessed a spectacle unlike anything I have seen in twenty years: a mass wedding celebrated…
Letters—January 2003
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What Else to Expect When You’re Expecting
Last Christmas our parish hall displayed a Nativity painting by a local artist, showing a dark-haired woman…
A Grammar of the Self
You cannot call up any wilder vision than a city in which men ask themselves whether they…
Thirty Years of Empty Promises
In the long and arduous fight leading up to Roe v. Wade, the one thing feminists were…
