Aug/Sept 1990
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Editorial: Equality After Socialism
Socialism is dead, and, except within certain academic and religious circles, there will be few mourners. A…
Worldly Wisdom, Christian Foolishness
Intellectuals who are also Christians face the continuing problem of the tangled relationship between their vocation and…
Wealth and Whimsy: On Economic Creativity
The question is: What are the theological resources of the Christian tradition for understanding the production of…
How to Think About the Family: Ten Suggestions
Over the past decade, the “family” has gone public. Popular opinion is clearly worried about it. Everyone…
Religion and the Life of Learning
What can we know? How should we live? In what or whom should we hope? A historian…
The Orthodox Jew as Intellectual Crank
My subject is “The Orthodox Jew as Intellectual Crank,” and it would be best if I began…
Solzhenitsyn and Modern Literature
For the advanced writer of our time, Diana Trilling wrote twenty-five years ago in “The Moral Radicalism…
The Many Causes of Environmentalism
The Woodstock Center at Georgetown University is where some distinguished Jesuits, and some less distinguished Jesuits, fiddle…
Editorial: Democracy and Obscenity
The nation braces itself for yet another round of moral indignation against moral indignation. The first indignation…
Hank Gathers and Cultural Christianity
When the Loyola Marymount basketball team, riding the crest of an emotional high after the death of…
Academic Integrity Betrayed
Abortion does funny things to the mind. Not necessarily the procedure itself: expert opinion on its mental…
Religious Freedom Denied
Imagine a country in which religious freedom is trammeled, and another country in which religious freedom is…
Jews, Christians, and the Land of Israel
For many Jews and some Christians the return of the Jews to the Land of Israel in…
Intra-Tribal Warfare
Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes by laurence h. tribe norton, 259 pages, $19.95 Abortion: The Clash of…
A Man of Contradictions
Kazantzakis: Politics of the Spirit by peter bien princeton university press, 318 pages, $29.95 By the time…
Poverty and Morality
The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare by michael b. katz…
Being Modern
Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity by charles taylor harvard university press, 601…
Instaurations: The New Science of Sunsets
It is harder to see what one seesthan anyone knowsbecause it is easier, far far easierthan on…
