April 1998
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A Tacit Admission of Defeat
The Public Square As a celebrity is someone who is famous for being famous, so the news…
Abortion: A Failure to Communicate
For twenty-five years the pro-life movement has stood up to defend perhaps the most crucial principle in…
Reflections on the UDHR
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the UN General Assembly in December 1948 and widely…
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted and proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United…
John Paul II on the American Experiment
In receiving the credentials of the Honorable Lindy Boggs as Ambassador to the Holy See on December…
On Human Rights
Fifty years ago, on December 10, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal…
A Philosopher of Virtue
On November 6, 1997, the German Catholic philosopher Josef Pieper died at the age of ninety-three. Hearing…
An Unwonted Uncertainty
You get to a certain age and you know-or ought to know-what you think about important issues.…
Remembering John Howard Yoder
The 1978 Festival Quarterly featured a profile of John Howard Yoder. The interviewer asked John if he…
Anti-Semitism Without Anti-Semites
In a Manhattan apartment overlooking the East River, a young woman I know lies awake at 5…
What a Woman Ought to Think
This is the “hiring season” for those of us in academia, the time of year when faculty…
Uncommon Prayers
The Liturgical Revolution: Prayer Book Revision and Associated Parishes: A Generation of Change in the Episcopal Church…
Burke’s Mansions
Edmund Burke: A Life in Caricature By Nicholas K. Robinson Yale University Press 214 pp. $45 Edmund…
Briefly Noted 145
The Flight from Science and Reason. Edited by Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt, and Martin W. Lewis.…
Coming Out Against the Church
The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology By Mark D. Jordan University of Chicago Press. 190 pp.…
Before the Papacy
Karol Wojtyla: The Thought of the Man Who Became John Paul II By Rocco Buttiglione. Translated by…
Liberalism Reconsidered
Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy By Jürgen Habermas. Translated…
Leaving Sixty
A neighbor’s cat ambled by, wetting our sand casually, as natural as lions in the Kalahari marking…
