April 1992

The media have at last grasped the fact that test scores and graduation rates improve where schools…

No, the situation could hardly be more serious, unless Diocletian reclined still in his palace, and martyrs…

While the United States has been preoccupied with another Kennedy scandal, the controversies over Clarence Thomas and…

The March issue of First Things included a Declaration in support of the proposed Religious Freedom Restoration…

Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man by David Lehman Poseidon Press/Simon…

In the January issue, this section carried a commentary titled “The Catholic Church as Interest Group.” Among…

Some will protest that the question posed by that title is outrageously wrongheaded. To ask what we…

“Workers of the world . . . forgive me.”    —Graffiti on a statue of Karl Marx  Moscow,…

My brother Esau is an hairy man, but I am a smooth man,” Jacob said. There have…

On July 6,1991, the Italian Jesuit biweekly, La Civilta Cattolica, published a lengthy editorial arguing that the…

Koop: The Memoirs of America’s Family Doctor by C. Everett Koop Random House, 342 pages, $22.50 What…

Saint Augustine: Confessions translated by Henry Chadwick Oxford University Press, 311 pages, $24.95 Translating Augustine’s Confessions is…

A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society by Donald L. Horowitz University of California…

Reaching for Heaven on Earth: The Theological Meaning of Economics by Robert H. Nelson Rowman and Littlefield,…

This feast of a day on the river      is heavily salted with gulls. And the…

Structure of organic stone this vacant house built molecule on molecule by the body of a mollusk…

There is nothing left to say now and nothing left to do the tears will not come…