Aug/Sept 2001
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The Nature of Law
Robert P. George’s “ What is Law? A Century of Arguments ” (April) will be a wonderful…
Will All Be Saved?
The question of universalism—whether all will, in the end, be saved—is perennially agitated in the Christian tradition.…
The End of Endings
Grammars of Creation by George Steiner Yale University Press, 338 pages, $29.95 The Promised End: Eschatological Theology…
Rescuing Tolerance
The notion of tolerance encompasses two quite different ideas. On the one hand it can be understood…
The Last Liberal
The history of liberalism in our times is not, for liberals, a happy one. Modern liberalism originated…
Auden and the Limits of Poetry
By the mid-1930s, W. H. Auden was the most famous and most widely imitated young poet in…
Avery Cardinal Dulles and His Critics: An Exchange on Capital Punishment
Avery Cardinal Dulles carefully lays out the Catholic Church’s traditional teaching on capital punishment (”Catholicism and Capital…
The Vietnam Wars
Like Israelis and Palestinians eyeing each other suspiciously from adjacent hilltops in the West Bank, Americans who…
Putting Parents in Charge
Lincoln warned that the United States could not long survive half slave and half free. To which…
Turn Out the Lights?
Not long ago, my pastor asked if I’d be willing to serve as a delegate for our…
The Passing of R. J. Rushdoony
Rousas John Rushdoony died on February 8 of this year, at the age of eighty-four. He was…
The Divided Self of William James
The Divided Self of William James by richard m. gale cambridge university press, 376 pages, $57.69 In…
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The Mobilization of Shame: A World View of Human Rights by robert f. drinan, s. j. yale…
The Burdens of History
Why Angels Fall: A Journey Through Orthodox Europe from Byzantium to Kosovo by victoria clark palgrave macmillan,…
Matters of Life and Death
Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America by wesley j. smith encounter books, 256…
Postmodernizing the Martyrs
Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism by daniel boyarin stanford univeristy press,…
Celebrating Hellenism
Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization by bruce s. thornton encounter books, 198 pages, $16.95…
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The Mobilization of Shame: A World View of Human Rights. By Robert F. Drinan, S.J Yale University…
