April 1990
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Editorial: The Churches and the Cold War
From beneath the rubble of crumbling Marxist tyrannies come voices long silenced. They are voices of rejoicing…
Conservatism Against Itself
The question before us is whether cultural conservatism is compatible with economic liberalism, the political philosophy of…
Minding Our Manners and Morals
We begin with the observations of a social critic of cultural conservative leanings—let his name, for the…
The Next Line of Hills: The Challenge of Peace Revisited
Who could have imagined, on that May afternoon in 1983 when the National Conference of Catholic Bishops…
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Transcendental Subject
At the time of the publication of Michael Sandel’s Liberalism and the Limits of Justice in 1982,…
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…
The Feminist Faith
Elizabeth Achtemeier, professor of Bible at Union Theological Seminary, Virginia, has flatly asserted that radical feminist theology…
Editorial: Peace Dividends & the Progressive Paradigm
The end of the Cold War (how matter of fact those words already appear) requires reconsiderations in…
Eastern Europe: History Resumed
Eastern Europe in 1990 is not to be confused with Africa in 1960. African decolonization was a…
Timethink on the Rocks
Poor Time. Twenty-four years ago this month, the magazine brought us its Nietzschean fears with its famous…
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…
The Bishops and the Middle East
The U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Statement on the Middle East, adopted unanimously during the bishops’ fall 1989 bicentennial…
Discerning . . . to a Point
The Giving and Taking of Life: Essays Ethicalby james turnstead burchtaelluniversity of notre dame press, 324 pages,…
Where’s the Glory?
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subcultureby randall balmeroxford university press, 246…
The Bad Old Days
Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts about the Sixtiesby peter collier and david horowitzsummit books, 352 pages, $19.95 The…
Asking the Wrong Question
Prophetic Visions and Economic Realities: Protestants, Jews, & Catholics Confront the Bishops’ Letter on the Economyedited by…
Should Politics Be Sacralized?
Twin Powers: Politics and the Sacred by thomas molnar eerdmans, 147 pages, $9.95 One of the most…
Fixing America
Straight Shooting: What’s Wrong with America and How to Fix Itby john silberharper and row, 336 pages,…
Wisteria
Here it comes again, after shimmering dead all winter, stretching, flexing, limbering, unleashing hordes of feather-cut leaves that look like dragon…
