April 1999
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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The Dying of the Academic Light
The Public Square The long history of colleges and universities betraying their founding purposes is well told…
Controversial Engagements
On March 19, 1998, the young social historian Eugene McCarraher delivered a portion of his doctoral thesis…
Is Private Schooling Privatizing?
Question: Are families that choose private schools and home education for their children more likely than families…
Government as Judgment
The democracies that emerged victorious from the Second World War tried to entrench human rights as a…
Dante: A Party of One
Rarely has a writer left a more indelible mark—and under less favoring circumstances—than Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). His…
“The American People”
Sometimes the phrase became so intolerably ubiquitous that entire comedy routines were made around it. But neither…
Letter from Poland
If you looked closely during one of the full-to-bursting Sunday evening student Masses last summer at the…
Catholics, Protestants, and Contraception
It has become a commonplace that religious controversy today occurs more often across church boundaries than between…
Barometer Falling
Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Public Culture by lawrence rainey yale university press, 238 pages, $144.90…
Impoverished Theology
The Character of God: Recovering the Lost Literary Power of American Protestantism by thomas e. jenkins oxford,…
Rewriting the Founders
The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction by akhil reed amar yale university press, 412 pages, $23.74…
A Footnote to the Sixties
The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left in America by doug rossinow columbia university…
The Elusive Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton, American by richard brookhiser simon & schuster, 240 pages, $7 National Review senior editor Richard…
Theories of Everything
What Remains to be Discovered: Mapping the Secrets of the Universe, the Origins of Life, and the…
