Aug/Sept 1997
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August/September Letters
Favoritism vs. Nondiscrimination? In the April issue of First Things (“God and Bigotry at Yale,” Public Square),…
In the Beauty of Holiness
The Public Square In the Beauty of Holiness When asked what he most misses since becoming a…
Who Elected Clinton: A Collision of Values
If you believe the conventional wisdom, the 1996 elections were “valueless.” And indeed, moral concerns played a…
End No-Fault Divorce?
YES: Maggie Gallagher Recently I proposed that states require a five-year waiting period for a contested no-fault…
Suicide Is Not a Private Choice
The right to privacy has both positive and negative connotations for those who consider themselves part of…
That They May Have Life
The following statement was issued early this year by the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, office of the President’s…
China’s Christian History
For more than four centuries, the study of China and the conversion of its people have been…
Oh Canada
It was quite by chance that I found myself in Canada on June 2, federal election day.…
The San Francisco Solution
In a pair of side-by-side op-ed pieces last April, the San Francisco Chronicle presented a double critique…
Now for Some Good News
Ideas don’t only have consequences, they have companions. For thirty years a ragtag trio has been running…
Canada’s Judicial Captivity
From the confederation of provinces which formed Canada in 1867 until 1982, Canada was a country of…
Conflicting Worlds of Welfare Reform
The welfare reform that Congress passed last year ends unlimited federal aid to poor families and limits…
The Choosing People
The Vanishing American Jew: in Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century by Alan M. Dershowitz…
Briefly Noted 138
Making Christ Known: Historic Mission Documents from the Lausanne Movement, 1974-1989 Edited by John R. Stott Foreword…
Right Turn
Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey by David Horowitz Free Press, 468 pages, $27.50 David Horowitz is the…
Mailer’s Jesus
The Gospel According to the Son by Norman Mailer Random House, 242 pages, $22 It’s just too…
Rising from the Ashes
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt Scribner, 364 pages, $25 Early last November, high in the Catskills, I…
Witches Sometimes Cry
Wild Beasts and Idle Humors by Daniel Robinson Harvard University Press,311 pages, $29.95 Daniel Robinson, as I…
Dirge
I should have deadened the street with straw, I should have stopped the bedroom clock and stilled…
Cosmos
Before I die I’d like to understand this world. (I grow ambitious as I read my words.)…
Timor Mortis
Death is the night watch The waiter, the wanter Death is the break The wake of the…
