Aug/Sept 1993
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On Women’s Ordination
On Women’s Ordination Michael Novak’s article “Women, Ordination, and Angels” (April) represents the essence of your fine…
Immigration and the Aliens Among Us
The Public Square Like many American Jews, Martin Peretz, editor in chief of The New Republic, had…
The Old New Criticism and its Critics
Among the pugnacious practitioners of academic literary studies, who agree among themselves on almost nothing, there is…
Coming Out Ahead: The Homosexual Moment in the Academy
The journal Victorian Studies recently invited submissions for a special issue, entitled “Victorian Sexualities.” “Topics,” stated the…
The Illusion of Moral Neutrality
I Nietzsche claimed that if men took God seriously, they would still be burning heretics at the…
God in a World of Gods
In North America, and increasingly in Europe, it has become a truism to say that the present…
Sparrows and Lilies
When I was pregnant with my first child, I asked my mother about labor. This woman who…
The Newtape File V
Dear Nephew, my plutonic sprout, I am pleased as punch (spiked with Demon Rum, of course) at…
A Smith for All Seasons
Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society by jerry z. muller free press,…
Schooling for Virtue
Why Johnny Can’t Tell Right from Wrong: Moral Illiteracy and the Case for Character Education by william…
Life’s Value
The Children of Men by p. d. james knopf, 241 pages, $22 For some years now the…
Illusory Compromise
Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education by gerald graff norton, 214…
Stella and Her Late August Garden
“Get that tomato, there, and that one,” she says as she points with her cane and holds…
The Summer of 1883
Oh, they chose, all right. This is the New World: no guarantee, but opportunity. In one summer…
Straw Hat
The sun filters through the filigree and sprinkles dot lights upon my face as I draw musky…
Main Street, Parkers Prairie (Later Old Town)
They have waited all their lives for train tracks to lace them to other towns, and now…
