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The New Class Reconsidered

Alan Wolfe

Hidden Technocrats: The New Class and the New Capitalism edited by hansfried kellner and frank w. heuberger…

Editorial: Abortion and a Nation at War

The Editors

Surely, one may devoutly hope, Justice Scalia exaggerates. In his dissent from Planned Parenthood v. Casey (joined…

Getting Rid of the Vegetables

David F. Forte

The other day, I cleaned out the vegetable bin in my refrigerator. Some leaves of the head…

Two Paths to Black Power

Glenn C. Loury

The process of nominating and confirming Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court served to underline the debate…

A Common Enemy, A Common Cause

John Courtney Murray

On June 24, 1992 the Supreme Court handed down Lee v. Weisman, a decision that declares officially…

Statement on Church and State

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June 17, 1948 Recent decisions of the Supreme Court have extended the meaning of the constitutional prohibition…

Why Pluralism Needs Monism

Peter J. Leithart

“Vatican II,” George Weigel writes in Freedom and Its Discontents, “posed a basic challenge to the many…

Evangelicals and Economic Development

Amy L. Sherman

Earlier this year I was in charge of “debriefing” a small group of evangelical college students who…

The Pope, the Emperor, and the First Amendment

Augustine Thompson

Every year during the winter quarter my yearlong course in the history of Christianity reaches the eleventh-century…

Abortion and Political Compromise

Christopher Wolfe

Roe v. Wade is clearly in for substantial pruning—possibly even an outright overruling—in the near future. Thus…

Church-State Conundrums

Keith Pavlischek

Original Intent: Chief Justice Rehnquist and the Course of American Church/State Relations by derek davis prometheus books,…

What Americans Really Think About Abortion

James Davison Hunter

At the foundation of any democratic society is the principle that the laws that order our lives…

Editorial: The Corruption of the Would-Be First Estate

The Editors

The fourth estate now considers itself to be the first estate, and not without reason. In public…

Suya Wars

Alan Jacobs

Most Americans believe, when they think of the issue at all, that our disputes over the role…

Academic Religion: Playground of the Vandals

Paul V. Mankowski

“When you say ‘hill,’” the Queen interrupted, “I could show you hills, in comparison with which you’d…