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RJN 1.13.05 The Roe decision…
The Roe decision of 1973, wrote Yale’s legendary law professor, John Hart Ely, “is not constitutional law…
JB 1.07.06 Milton Himmelfarb…
Milton Himmelfarb passed away this week in his eighty-eighth year. A contributor to F IRST T HINGS…
JB: 1.09.06 This weekend…
This weekend, the Wall Street Journal ran an interesting story about Joshua Hochschild, an assistant professor of…
RJN 1.05.06 “The Christ-haunted…
“The Christ-haunted South.” Flannery O’Connor’s phrase came to mind, said a friend, upon reading this report from…
WM: 1.04.06 The Chronicle of…
The Chronicle of Higher Education, being the trade journal of higher education, is one of those publications…
RJN: 12.15.05 Over on Catholic…
Over on Catholic World News, there is this fellow who calls himself Diogenes, aka Uncle Di. He…
Scientific Orthodoxies
Back in the 1970s, when my wife Celeste was in the seventh grade at Our Lady of…
RJN: 11.29.05 In the Washington…
In the Washington Post ( November 18 ), Michael Kinsley returns to the complexity of abortion politics.…
RJN: 11.16.05 The New York…
The New York Times regularly serves up a target-rich supply of news and commentary and, as with…
RJN: 11.12.05 For the record…
For the record: Wal-Mart has apologized for what it describes as “the inappropriate and inflammatory comments” to…
Briefly Noted 13
Sacred and Secular Scriptures: A Catholic Approach to Literature. By Nicholas Boyle. University of Notre Dame Press.…
To the Golden Gate Bridge
In 1942 when I was ten and you were five, we got together Sundays as I’d head…
Why We Work
Just Work by Russell Muirhead Harvard University Press, 224 pp. $24.95 That work is essential to human…
Briefly Noted — 05/05
Divorcing Marriage: Unveiling the Dangers in Canada’s New Social Experiment edited by daniel cere & douglas farrow.…
No Longer Neutral
God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation are Changing America by Naomi Schaefer…
