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Evangelicals in the Dock
It’s called straining a gnat and swallowing a camel. At its annual meeting in Atlanta in November…
Europe’s Problem—and Ours
Go back in your mind’s eye to the fall of 1940, the fateful period that Winston Churchill…
Catholicism as the Other
Martin Scorsese’s recent film The Gangs of New York takes us back to a time when religion,…
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The Wisdom of the World: The Human Experience of the Universe in Western Thought. By Rémi Brague.…
Herod’s Confusion
As her dance dissolves and smiling Salome Sashays across the floor in smoky veils To join her…
Sweet Sistine
Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by ross king walker and company, 373 pages, $28 According to Giorgio…
What’s So Funny
The Morality of Laughter by f. h. buckleyuniversity of michigan press. 239 pp. $29.95 Football, a famously…
The Concert
It offers many dividends: The opportunity to meet And chat with old and new-found friends; The amiable…
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Religious Liberty in America: Political Safeguards. By Louis Fisher. University Press of Kansas. 266 pp. $16.95 paper.…
Remembering Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich died in Bremen on December 2, 2002 at the age of seventy-six. As a German…
Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Human Dignity: The Challenge of Bioethics
Leon Kass has described himself as a strange man who writes strange and untimely books. Given the…
The Virtue of Hate
In his classic Holocaust text, The Sunflower, Simon Wiesenthal recounts the following experience. As a concentration camp prisoner,…
Debating the Human Future
human cloning and human dignity: the report of the president’s council on bioethics with a foreward by…
Another Islam
Beginning in the thirteenth century, the three monotheistic religions parted ways, with the Jewish and Christian world…
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
From the perspective of Israel and its (few remaining) friends, the Six Day War was—and remains—both just…
