Aug/Sept 1998
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The Most New Thing in the Novus Ordo Seclorum
nThe Public Square The Most New Thing in the Novus Ordo Seclorum Since I do not assume…
The Everyday C.S. Lewis
“One is sometimes (not often) glad not to be a great theologian. One might so easily confuse…
Discovering the Talmud
Consider the book we are talking about. It is written in two foreign languages, one of which…
Life, Law, and Suicide
The following excerpt is taken from a 1997 supplement of the New York State Task Force on…
The Eminent Tribunal
It is commonplace in pro-life circles to compare the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade…
The Nullification Machine
This May, a federal judge in Wisconsin created hysteria in the pro-abortion movement by refusing to grant…
Home, Alien Home
Each time I return to Frankenmuth, as I did again earlier this summer, I am plunged into…
The Imitation of Mr. Starbuck
Imagine an enormous royal blue tick. If that seems too repulsive, imagine a large royal blue beachball.…
Theories of Everything
Over the years, through the diligent encouragement of friends, I have acquired something of a taste for…
David Klinghoffer and His Critics: An Exchange
As a member of the Editorial Board of First Things since its inception, I protest the publication…
“Why Go to Mass?”
It wasn’t in my contract, but I really think it should have been. Because I spend a…
The Secularist Faith
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor By David…
Briefly Noted — 08/98
Jews and the American Slave Trade. by saul s. friedman transaction. 326 pages, $34.95 After being been…
Resisting the Sovereign
The Dissent of the Governed: A Meditation on Law, Religion, and Loyalty By Stephen L. Carter Harvard…
Making the Wager
God: The Evidence. The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in a Postsecular World By Patrick Glynn Prima.…
Remnants of a Century
A Thread of Years By John Lukacs Yale University Press. 481 pp. $30 Historian John Lukacs has…
The Bible by Numbers
Cracking the Bible Code By Jeffrey Satinover Morrow. 346 pp. $23 The “Bible Code” is the name…
When Rockets Fell Like Stars
We prowled that part of the base at midnight, high on crowbars and beer. We smashed car…
Flathead Lake, Montana
Lying here on the short grass, I am a bowl for sunlight. Silence. A bee. The lip…
Remains
A house alongside the road has been gutted; a few remains of the furnishings”wallpaper, toasters, beams” peak…
