Aug/Sept 1996
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Farewell to the Overclass
The Public Square Egalitarian protestations to the contrary notwithstanding, every functional society has a class composed of…
Bonhoeffer and the Sovereign State
The decision to attempt the assassination of Hitler, to “cut off the head of the snake,” was…
Daniel Goldhagen’s Holocaust
Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by daniel jonah goldhagenknopf, 622 pages, $30 It must…
The Achievement of Alasdair MacIntyre
Moral philosophers are caught in a peculiar paradox these days. On the one hand, their field is…
Dehumanization Triumphant
Recent efforts to legalize physician-assisted suicide and to establish a constitutional “right to die” are deeply troubling…
The Truth About Crime and Welfare
Over the years, First Things has done a good job of highlighting the issue of prison overcrowding,…
When Insults No Longer Insult
Some years ago I participated in an academic conference whose main attraction was the late Allan Bloom,…
Last Testament
On May 24, 1996, a group of Islamic terrorists announced that they had “slit the throats” of…
The Courts: Order in the Classroom
There has been in recent years a surprisingly broad but little noticed shift in judicial thinking about…
What’s Wrong with Evangelical Theology?
In his book No Place for Truth , David Wells tells a tale of two declines”the first…
To Be Citizens Again
I would like to introduce you to Lessie Handy. Several years ago, Ms. Handy moved from Houston…
The Loss of the Family Story
The Abolition of Marriage: How We Detroy Lasting Love By Maggie Gallagher Regnery, 300 pages, $24.95 Maggie…
Thinking Big
The End of the Nation-State By Jean-Marie Guéhenno Translated by Victoria Elliott University of Minnesota Press, 145…
Murray’s Mantle
Bridging the Sacred and the Secular: Selected Writings of John Courtney Murray, S.J. Edited by J. Leon…
Briefly Noted 128
Church Teaching Authority: Historical and Theological Studies By John P. Boyle University of Notre Dame Press, 241…
Civilization and Wilderness
Into the Wild By Jon Krakauer Villard, 207 pages, $22 Jon Krakauer has written a thoroughly familiar…
Abortion, Set to Music
Sacred Music of the 20th Century LAL-2001, Life Art, Ltd. 129 Frandview Terrace, Box 300, Lakeside, MT…
The Fire in the Equations
The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion, and the Search for God By Kitty Ferguson Eerrdmans, 308…
