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While We’re At It
• In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, federal agencies, the Red Cross, and various charities granted…
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Angels of Death: Exploring the Euthanasia Underground. By Roger S. Magnusson. Yale University Press. 306 pp. $35.…
While We’re At It
• Here are some of the “great women and men of God [who are] the ancient foundation…
Secularization in Theory and Fact
Many of the most influential secularization theorists have been Europeans, especially German and French. Since the eighteenth…
Judicial Line-Drawings
The editors of the New York Times are worried about the “muddle” over “just where the line…
At the Origins of the Culture War
One of the many contributions of Gertrude Himmelfarb’s new book, One Nation, Two Cultures (Knopf), is to…
“Real Existing Christianity” in America
Resistance to the incorrigibility of Christian America takes many forms. Those who are taken with the idea…
Witness to the Witness
Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II by george weigel harpercollins/cliff books, 992 pages,…
The Revenge of Conscience
Things are getting worse very quickly now. The list of what we are required to approve is…
Remembering the Riots
Of the various disasters that littered the 1960s, none was more deleterious in its effects than the…
The End of Democracy? The Judicial Usurpation of Politics
Introduction Articles on “judicial arrogance” and the “judicial usurpation of power” are not new. The following symposium…
Mercy Killing at Golgotha
L. Annaeus Seneca, Greetings from your uncle in Palestine. Whoever thought it best to extend the empire…
The Western Mind of Radical Islam
Fat’hi ash-Shiqaqi, a well-educated young Palestinian living in Damascus, recently boasted of his familiarity with European literature.…
Liberation Theology-What’s Left
Among the far-reaching effects of the great antisocialist revolutions of 1989 is one that has so far…
The Decline and Fall of the Christian College
Every one shall consider the main End of his life and studies, to know God and Jesus…
