April 2000
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Are Women Inferior?
Copyright (c) 2000 First Things 102 (April 2000): 2-8. Are Women Inferior? It appears that Marie I.…
What Sex Is–And Is For
Sexuality and the Christian Body By Eugene F. Rogers, Jr. Blackwell. 303 pp. $62.95. The blurbs on…
A Conversion Story
An adult conversion to Catholicism—or indeed to any form of orthodox Christianity—is not an everyday occurrence in…
DNA and Other Designs
For two millennia, the design argument provided an intellectual foundation for much of Western thought. From classical…
Can Philosophy Be Christian?
The possibility of a Christian philosophy was fiercely debated in the late 1920s and the early 1930s,…
George Eliot: Good Without God
George Eliot: The Last Victorian by kathryn hughes farrar, straus & giroux. 400 pp. $30 On the…
Forgiveness & the Death Penalty
On February 24, the State of Texas executed Betty Lou Beets, age sixty-two, for the murder of…
My History and America’s
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), in partnership with the White House Millennium Council, announced in…
Believing in the Word
The recent death of Catholic author Andre Dubus represents a loss to anyone interested in the fate…
Lincoln, Nietzsche, and the Constitution
There was some puzzlement among John Stuart Mill’s contemporaries that he should publish his tract On Liberty,…
Remembering the Rescuers
In a no“holds“barred article, “Auschwitz and the Professors,” published in the June 1998 issue of Commentary ,…
Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment: Essential Rights and Liberties
Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment by john witte, jr. and joel a. nichols oxford university press,…
Briefly Noted — 04/00
James Joyce: A Life by edna o’brien viking/penguin, 179 pages, $14 This entry in the Penguin Lives…
A History of the Popes, 1830–1914
A History of the Popes, 1830-1914 by owen chadwick oxford university press, 626 pages, $52.56 A century…
Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus
Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus by thomas cahill anchor, 535 pages,…
The Trouble With Principle
The Trouble With Principle by stanley fish harvard university press, 336 pages, $20.06 “For all the radical…
How We Got Here
So David Frum sends me his new book, with the inscription, “Hope you like this one better…
Judicial Line-Drawings
The editors of the New York Times are worried about the “muddle” over “just where the line…
At the Origins of the Culture War
One of the many contributions of Gertrude Himmelfarb’s new book, One Nation, Two Cultures (Knopf), is to…
Cultural Breakthroughs
A while back there was a story in the Times expressing puzzlement as to why there was…
“Real Existing Christianity” in America
Resistance to the incorrigibility of Christian America takes many forms. Those who are taken with the idea…
While We’re At It
• Craig J. Rolwoods of Titusville, New Jersey, spotted this explanation from the U.S. Postal Service. It…
