Aug/Sept 1994
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A Counter-Response
As members of the National Association of College and University Chaplains (NACUC), we want to offer a…
Never Again?
The Public Square For most people in the West it is possibly the case that the only…
The Family and the Constitution
The family occupies a precarious position in the liberal democracies of today. It still exists; it sometime…
Awakening from Nihilism: The Templeton Prize Address
This essay is adapted from an address presented by Mr. Novak at Westminster Abbey on May 5,…
The Prudence of John Henry Newman
On January 22, 1991, the Roman phase of an investigatory process into the character and merits of…
Blacks and Jews Entangled
In her 1991 autobiography, Deborah, Golda, and Me , Letty Cottin Pogrebin argued that black-Jewish relationships rested…
Interpreting the Bible: Three Views
Late last year the Vatican released the report of the Pontifical Biblical Commission on “The Interpretation of…
The Sanctity of Life Seduced: A Symposium on Medical Ethics
Daniel Callahan Two important social forces lie behind the potentially disastrous turn of public opinion toward euthanasia…
On Hegemonic Discourse
It is currently a favorite complaint and/or explanation: a “hegemonic discourse” is repressing someone. Thus, for instance,…
Is Choice Still a Choice?
Last November, California voters defeated “Proposition 174.” Had it passed, 174 would have provided scholarships to all…
The Gift of Christopher Lasch
A balanced assessment of the work of Christopher Lasch will not be possible for some time. For…
The Other Face of Gaia
The following satire piece is further explained by Peter Berger in “A Satirist’s Lament.” From a lecture…
Liberty and Sexuality
It is now twenty-one years since Harry Blackmun assaulted American constitutional jurisprudence with his opinion in Roe…
Selling God
In holy writ, the conjunctions between authentic faith and the worlds of commerce are strangely varied: the…
Briefly Noted 108
On Power: The Natural History of its Growth By Bertrand de Jouvenel Liberty Press. 444 pp. $25…
Dear James
Some writers capture national headlines; others capture local hearts. This observation was brought delightfully home to me…
History and the Moral Imagination
On Looking into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society By Gergrude Himmelfarb Knopf 192 pp.…
The Faith of a Physicist
The Faith of a Physicist by Cambridge physicist and Anglican priest John Polkinghorne is a compendium of…
Poetry
As If (Psalm 73) Here’s a picture of the bad ones I once envied: Everything came easily:…
