Aug/Sept 2000
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Love and Sex
Love and Sex I am disappointed in Gilbert Meilaender’s review of Eugene Rogers’ book Sexuality and the…
The Church on the Rocks
The Public Square In the May issue I offered my tribute, written as he was dying, to…
Technicians of Learning
Modern institutions talk about themselves. When a corporation refashions itself—undergoes a complete makeover not merely to look…
In Defense of Immortality
In 1904, less than six years before his death, William James made a revealing statement in response…
Markets and Morals
In 1978, Friedrich Hayek proposed a great debate. He was by then almost eighty years old, but…
Rights, Animal and Human
Last year Harvard Law School offered its first“ever course on animal rights. This is good news for…
Pius XII as Scapegoat
From the beginning of his papacy in 1939 until well after his death in 1958, Pope Pius…
Life in the Little Apple
My wife and I have a commuter marriage: she lives and works in Valparaiso, Indiana, and I…
Remembering Robert Casey
On the morning of his Commonwealth’s 1992 presidential primary, I got a telephone call from Pennsylvania Governor…
Seminary Sanity
When you start out at seminary with an eye toward entering the ministry, the first thing they…
Briefly Noted 25
All Things Censored by mumia abu-jamal seven stories, 336 pages, $9.97 In one of those moments that…
Israel and the Nations
Church and Israel After Christendom: The Politics of Election by scott bader-saye wipf and stock, 202 pages,…
Critic of Modernity
The New Map of the World: The Poetic Philosophy of Giambattista Vico by giuseppe mazzotta princeton university…
Negotiating in Good Faith?
Negotiating Identity: Catholic Higher Education Since 1960 by alice gallin, o. s. u. university of notre dame…
Player in a Cosmic Drama
Pontius Pilate by ann wroe random house, 433 pages, $16.43 Next to Julius Caesar, Pontius Pilate–the governor…
The God He Barely Knew
Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President by allen c. guelzo eerdmans, 528 pages, $34.25 When Abraham Lincoln entered a…
The Limits of Natural Teleology
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by robert wright vintage, 448 pages, $17.67 In Nonzero Robert Wright…
Briefly Noted 25
All Things Censored by Mumia Abu-Jamal Seven Stories, 303 pp., $29.95 In one of those moments that…
Our ship stands off the coast
Our ship stands off the coast. From where we lie, The moss“green hills resemble what we’ve lost:…
Edward Shils in Heaven
Edward Shils in Heaven Dear Edward, sleepless, lonely, I think of you tonight In Heaven, out for…
Narrowboats
Narrowboats I love the ones most obviously lived in: bicycles and pots of lavender arrayed on a…
Our ship stands off the coast
Our ship stands off the coast. From where we lie, The moss“green hills resemble what we’ve lost:…
