American Politics
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Jobs and Babies
It seems that most people who write about the joys and challenges of childrearing today are parents…
Summer’s End
Yesterday / stealing from the sun / dandelions...
Pym Wins
The Book Against God by James Wood Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. 257 pp. $24. James Wood is…
Tolkien and the Gift of Mortality
When I started reading The Lord of the Rings as an undergraduate, I was half-embarrassed to be…
The Episcopalian Preference
On August 5, 2003, the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA), following initial action…
The Bigot’s Opera
The Commander enters the living room carrying a big black Bible. He reads Genesis 30:1-3 to his…
The Secular City Redux
The Public Square There are in the press repeated references to “the rapidly growing lay protest movement,…
Letters—November 2003
Harsh Realities or Handy Myths? In “The Women of Roe v. Wade ” (June/July) Mary Ann Glendon’s…
The Making of a Killer
Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist. by Alston Chase W.W. Norton. 432 pp.…
Postmodernist Ecumenism
The Church in a Postliberal Age by George A. Lindbeck edited by James J. Buckley Eerdmans, 300…
Waking from the Dead
Terry Wallis recently woke up. For most of us, this would not be news. But for Terry…
Scandal and the Constitution
Let us stipulate from the beginning, as we lawyers say, that the Catholic scandal is fueled by…
The Marriage Amendment
Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman.…
Fretful Orthodoxy
There is a pamphlet making its way, via the Internet, through the Modern Orthodox stream of the…
War, Peace & Jean Bethke Elshtain
Stanley Hauwerwas and Paul J. Griffiths Jean Bethke Elshtain is rightly admired for her courage, for her…
