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Super Flumina Babylonis, or, Outside the Mainstream
Readers of the New York Times, which Alasdair MacIntyre has called “that parish magazine of affluent and self-congratulatory…
The Uses of Homophobia
The best way to win an argument is to control the terms of discussion. Any high school…
Binx and the Malaise
I heard the news in late May as I was walking into the Sno-White Cafe here in…
November Poem
Leaves no wind could wrench from earlier trees, in this windstill now let go. Their fall is…
The Organbuilders
The name of the one organbuilder was Craft, the other Dream, both descendants of an ur-figure. Creation. To graft metal…
After the Wedding: Diving Off Isla Mujeres
It’s been three days now. We continue to find splinters of rice clinging to our scalps; piercing no skin…
Nine Numbers
On card after card he sees it. Along with a harsh identity photograph And his preposterous signature, A black line…
Hank Gathers and Cultural Christianity
When the Loyola Marymount basketball team, riding the crest of an emotional high after the death of…
The Orthodox Jew as Intellectual Crank
My subject is “The Orthodox Jew as Intellectual Crank,” and it would be best if I began…
Poverty and Morality
The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare by michael b. katz…
The Bad Old Days
Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts about the Sixties by peter collier and david horowitz summit books, 352 pages,…
