Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
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…
Abortion Facts and Feelings
The story is told of a young student from an exotic place, a colonial dependency of Britain,…
A New Heaven and a New Earth
“RE-imagining,” a conference “by women for women and men,” marked the midpoint of the World Council of…
Rites of Spring
Office of Wellness California State University at Poco To: The Poco Community From: Chelsea Rabinowitz-Hakamoto, Wellness Coordinator…
The Limits of Reconstruction
Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century: A Biography of Mordecai M. Kaplan by mel scult wayne state university…
The Fifties Without Soul
This is not a book review, it’s a complaint. I have been reading—and, I confess, enormously enjoying—David…
Evil: Back in Bad Company
Most Christian thinkers have viewed evil as a privation, a derivative reality, like a shadow. Shadows are…
Legal Ethics—Worlds in Collision
Chicago’s financial district and the seat of its city government are only a few blocks apart, yet…
Christian Conviction & Democratic Etiquette
According to a bit of street wisdom that has worked its way into the national vocabulary, “You…
Woodstock Comes to Washington
If any further proof were needed that the Woodstock generation has taken over the federal government, President…
