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Hank Gathers and Cultural Christianity
When the Loyola Marymount basketball team, riding the crest of an emotional high after the death of…
Instaurations: The New Science of Sunsets
It is harder to see what one seesthan anyone knowsbecause it is easier, far far easierthan on…
The Orthodox Jew as Intellectual Crank
My subject is “The Orthodox Jew as Intellectual Crank,” and it would be best if I began…
Schools on Purpose
For each of the past twenty-one years the Gallup Organization has conducted a nationwide poll on attitudes…
Never the Twain
Japan: In the Land of the Brokenhearted by michael shapiro henry holt & company, 254 pages, $19.95 In…
Feminist Theodicy
Women and Evil by nell noddings university of california press, 284 pages, $25 For centuries theologians and…
Hope for South Africa?
A Future South Africa: Visions, Strategies, and Realities edited by peter l. berger and bobby godsell westview…
Forward to the Seventies
As I write these words, it is exactly one week before my seventieth birthday”“the days of our…
Friendship and Tragedy: The Fragilities of Goodness
By the time we begin part III in Martha Nussbaum’s brilliant The Fragility of Goodness (1986), it…
The Necktie Gap
The Resurgent Liberal: And Other Unfashionable Prophecies by robert reich random house, 303 pages, $19.95 There are…
Parable from the Prairie
In 1984 a federal court held the public schools of the Kansas City, Missouri, School District to…
Fuzzing Family Values: The Mass Mutual Survey
By now it should be axiomatic that surveys and polls tell us as much about the people…
Germans against Hitler: The Witness of the White Rose
It is hard to imagine a Jew today who would come to Germany without a profound sense…
A Culture of Poverty?
I hadn’t thought of Jerry Carter for at least five years. I probably wouldn’t have thought of…
The Perils of “Preferred Peers”
On Catholic campuses that aspire to Top Ten or Top Twenty status in publicity sweepstakes like the…
