April 1999
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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
Some books are like barometers: interesting chiefly for what they tell us about the prevailing climate. Lawrence…
Impoverished Theology
The Character of God: Recovering the Lost Literary Power of American Protestantismby thomas e. jenkinsoxford, 288 pages,…
Rewriting the Founders
Ever since Professor Woodrow Wilson laid it down as an article of Progressive faith that the (original)…
A Footnote to the Sixties
It is jarring to discover that the history of the 1960s is now being written by people…
The Elusive Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton, American by richard brookhiser simon & schuster, 240 pages, $16.99 National Review senior editor Richard Brookhiser…
Theories of Everything
Sir John Maddox was for almost a quarter of a century, until 1995, the editor-in-chief of Nature…
