December 1993
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1993 December Letters
More on Berger’s God Peter Berger’s “God in a World of Gods” (August/September) illustrates how quickly a…
The Couture of the Public Square
The Public Square Stephen Carter’s The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion…
The Land Called Holy
The Land Called Holy: Palestine in Christian History and Thought by Robert L. Wilken Yale University Press,…
The Idol of Academic Freedom
Sometime in the late summer of 1988, when I was still teaching at Valparaiso University in Indiana,…
Discovering the American Aristotle
Once upon a time, in what must now seem like the Stone Age—that is, before the invention…
The Nine Lives of Population Control
The idea of population control”perhaps even the idea of population itself”seems to have come into circulation somewhere…
The People Versus Martin Heidegger
Several members of the Philosophy, History, and Political Science faculties at the University of Tulsa recently completed…
A Foreign Policy of Avoidance
Does the Clinton Administration have a foreign policy worthy of the name? A recent blitz of so-called…
“Right to Die”—Good Slogan, Fuzzy Thinking
In recent years we have heard a good deal about the “right to die.” As my colleague…
Signs and Wonders
A few years ago, I joined a group of people who were keeping a lengthy vigil over…
The Betrayal of the French Left
Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals 1944–56 by tony judt university of california press, 348 pages, $30 The political…
The Swedish Syndrome
The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion by Stephen L. Carter Basic…
Briefly Noted 101
Sister Aimee: The Life of Aimee Semple McPherson by Daniel Mark Epstein Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 496 pages,…
Getting It Wrong
Life’s Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom by Ronald Dworkin Knopf, 273 pages, $23…
Patiently, Voraciously …
The Human Body Shop: The Engineering and Marketing of Life by Andrew Kimbrell HarperCollins, 348 pages, $22…
Undoing the Self
The Passion of Michel Foucault by James E. Miller Simon & Schuster, 491 pages, $27.50 By 1971,…
Traiders and Raiders
Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics by Jane Jacobs Random…
Klengel Composing His “Hymnus for Twelve Cellos”
He saw twelve cellos once in silent choir, like bathers poised and dripping by the wall to…
The Rue of Lot
His knowing shifted when he saw her turn”when with the cautious sliding of his eyehe caught the…
Cold Dawn at the Shelter
(For Alva Steffler) Last Christmastide the angel came at six fifteen. While volunteers began to poke the…
December
Biting bits of skin from my chapped lips looking for a place to park, I stop behind…
Hearing the Rain on a Skylight
Late at night, splashing my face and neck, through sounds of water running I hear cruel cuts…
