Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Who Are You?
The Clash of Civilization and the Remaking of World Order by samuel p. huntington simon & schuster,…
Mere Joy
Life as We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child by michael bérubé pantheon,…
A Bible Fit for Children
In a famous passage from Science and the Modern World, Alfred North Whitehead gives this counsel to…
Creatures of Place and Time: Reflections on Moving
My family and I moved last summer, moving to Valparaiso, Indiana from Oberlin, Ohio, where we had…
The Achievement of Alasdair MacIntyre
Moral philosophers are caught in a peculiar paradox these days. On the one hand, their field is…
The Children’s Hour
My April calendar reminds me that my oldest child celebrates her birthday this month. Which in turn…
Lost in the Movies
Last year I saw two truly vile movies, Pulp Fiction and Kids. The first turned my stomach.…
I Heart New York
When the Editor-in-Chief of this journal invited me to come East to work with him and his…
A Dutch Master and the Good Life
What follows is prompted not by a cigar, but rather a painting by the Dutch (strictly speaking,…
The Capital of Ambivalence
Modernity and Crises of Identity: Culture and Society in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna by jacques le rider translated by…
Educating Father Abraham: The Meaning of Fatherhood
My theme is the education of the patriarch Abraham, Father of Judaism, father of Christianity, father of…
The Family and the Constitution
The family occupies a precarious position in the liberal democracies of today. It still exists; it sometime…
Abortion Facts and Feelings
The story is told of a young student from an exotic place, a colonial dependency of Britain,…
It’s the Culture, Stupid
What really happened in the 1992 presidential election? And what does it tell us about American politics…
Liberalism vs. Religious Freedom
Religious Liberty in the Supreme Court: The Cases that Define the Debate over Church and State terry…
