December 1995
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1995 December Letters
Paul Davies & Critics: An Exchange In his essay “Physics and the Mind of God” (August/September), Paul…
The Uses of Envy
The Public Square There is no end to efforts to define what makes a book a classic.…
Habermas on the Upper West Side
Material bounty, particularly in the service of the person, the palate, and the household, is a striking…
Aquinas and the Heretics
Some time ago, I wrote an essay claiming St. Thomas as the first Whig, one of the…
Religion and the Court 1995: A Symposium
The Supreme Court on June 29 handed down two decisions in cases involving religion. In Rosenberger v.…
The Western Mind of Radical Islam
Fat’hi ash-Shiqaqi, a well-educated young Palestinian living in Damascus, recently boasted of his familiarity with European literature.…
Retuning the Psalms
The Psalter translated from the hebrew by the international commission on english in the liturgy. training publications,…
O. J. Simpson & the American Dilemma
The first thing to be said about the O. J. Simpson trial is that he was obviously…
The Rebbe Live
In what may yet come to be regarded as the heyday of the Lubavitcher hasidim’s outreach program,…
Doing What Can Be Done
American social reform movements have typically sought guidance from theologically informed morality for their political action. But…
Chain Gangs
After a thirty-year hiatus, chain gangs are back. Alabama, fittingly enough, has been first to reinstitute this…
Conservatisms in Conflict
The Southern Tradition: The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism. by Eugene D. Genovese. Harvard University…
Since Long Before 1492
Cultures in Conflict: Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Age of Discovery by bernard lewis oxford university…
The Religion-Free Classroom
Religion and American Education: Rethinking a National Dilemma. By Warren A. Nord University of North Carolina Press,…
The Japanese and the Jews
Jews in the Japanese Mind: The History and Uses of a Cultural Stereotype. By David G. Goodman…
Not Much Help
On the New Frontiers of Genetics and Religion By J. Robert Nelson Eerdmans. 212 pp. $12.99 We…
