Family

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Schools on Purpose

Charles L. Glenn

For each of the past twenty-one years the Gallup Organization has conducted a nationwide poll on attitudes…

Never the Twain

Thomas Berger

Japan: In the Land of the Brokenhearted by michael shapiro henry holt & company, 254 pages, $19.95 In…

Feminist Theodicy

Maria McFadden Maffucci

Women and Evil by nell noddings university of california press, 284 pages, $25  For centuries theologians and…

Forward to the Seventies

John Strietelmeier

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

Charles Pinches

By the time we begin part III in Martha Nussbaum’s brilliant The Fragility of Goodness (1986), it…

The Necktie Gap

David Brooks

The Resurgent Liberal: And Other Unfashionable Prophecies by robert reich random house, 303 pages, $19.95 There are…

Hope for South Africa?

John H. Chettle

A Future South Africa: Visions, Strategies, and Realities edited by peter l. berger and bobby godsell westview…

Parable from the Prairie

John E. Coons

In 1984 a federal court held the public schools of the Kansas City, Missouri, School District to…

Fuzzing Family Values: The Mass Mutual Survey

Gary L. Bauer

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

David Novak

It is hard to imagine a Jew today who would come to Germany without a profound sense…

A Culture of Poverty?

Don Wycliff

I hadn’t thought of Jerry Carter for at least five years. I probably wouldn’t have thought of…

The Perils of “Preferred Peers”

Joel Morehouse

On Catholic campuses that aspire to Top Ten or Top Twenty status in publicity sweepstakes like the…