December 1991
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1991 December Letters
The Evils of Capitalism While I agree with some of Peter Berger’s observations in “Capitalism: The Continuing…
Editorial: Euthanasia: Final Exit, Final Excuse
At year’s end, the eyes of the world turn again to an infant who is, so Christians…
The Mindless Self: Freud Triumphant
In the heat of the anguished nineteenth-century debate over evolutionary theory, Samuel Butler declared that Darwin had…
Education and the Mind Redeemed
I The early Church father Tertullian asked a famous question, one that has been asked again and…
Science Within the Limits of Truth
The October 1990 issue of this publication featured a lively and occasionally fierce debate on the subject…
The Grammar of Baptism
Feminism has become a truly significant force within American culture. Its presence and power is felt in…
Reagan’s America, America’s Reagan
An American Life by Ronald Reagan Simon and Schuster, 748 pages, $24.95 President Reagan: The Role of…
The Feminist Revelation
That is the title of an important article in Social Philosophy & Policy (Vol. VIII, No. 1)…
A Rabbi’s Christmas
In order not to raise false hopes in the hearts of those who still have the expectation…
A Protestant Shtetl
Just east of Chattanooga, four miles north of the Georgia state line and six miles up the…
Abortion on Second Thought
I was a teenager and young adult in the late 1960s and early 1970s, before Roe v.…
The One and the Many
The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin Alfred A. Knopf,…
The Personal Niebuhr
Remembering Reinhold Niebuhr: Letters of Reinhold and Ursula Niebuhr Edited by Ursula M. Niebuhr HarperCollins, 432 pages,…
Always Among Us
The Urban Underclass Edited by Christopher Jencks and Paul E. Peterson Brookings Institution Publications, 490 pages, $34.95…
The Reluctant Skeptic
Chapter and Verse: A Skeptic Revisits Christianity by Mike Bryan Random House, 324 pages, $22 Mike Bryan…
Roger’s Versions
The Philosopher on Dover Beach: Essays by Roger Scruton St. Martin’s Press, 350 pages, $24.95 Unusually for…
In A Field Of Weeds
“Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.” —Pascal, Pensées…
Near Dawn
Tugged out of bed by a dream,he enters the world, confrontscats stalking the hallway,aghast at this early…
