February 1995
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February Letters 113
More on Marital Power Upon reading Mona Scheuermann’s “Letter to a Colleague” (November 1994) concerning “power relations” in marriage,…
Getting the Sides Straight
The Public Square The Guardian, a British paper, has a man in Washington named Martin Walker and…
The Marriage of Your Choice
I’ve probably been hanging around Hadley Arkes too long. Hadley has a way of coming up with…
Go(o)d in Iris Murdoch
Recently the Divinity School at the University of Chicago sponsored a conference to investigate and celebrate the…
The Debate About a School Prayer Amendment Is Not About School Prayer
Among all the other things that seem to have changed “all of a sudden” as a consequence…
Penalizing Wrong Ideas
A court case in Minnesota ( Lundman v. McKown ) raises important questions for the ongoing interpretation…
The Zionist Imperative
Some eighty years ago, the German-Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen declared, “The Jewish people do not need a…
What Really Happened at Cairo
Gargantuan international conferences replete with diplomats, “international civil servants,” various “nongovernmental organization” (NGO) representatives, and the world…
My Island Paradise
Among my friends, especially the liberal ones, it is a matter of some curiosity that I, the…
A Suspicion of Snobbery
We have in town a store where clerks in hushed and reverent tones sell breviaries and Bibles,…
In the Absence of Fathers
The radical feminists are using the O. J. Simpson tragedy to trash their usual suspects: “patriarchal” men.…
Immigration: The Solution is the Problem
The current debate over immigration policy cuts across the conventional political and ideological divides. It is also…
Saving Philanthropy from Itself
Giving: Charity and Philanthropy in History By Robert H. Bremner Transaction. 235 pp. $34.95 We are experiencing…
Food for Thought – and Life
The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of our Nature By Leon R. Kass Free Press. 248…
The Lost Synthesis?
Passage to Modernity: An Essay in the Hermeneutics of Nature and Culture. By Louis Dupre. Yale University…
What Mendel Wrought
The Gene Wars: Science, Politics, and the Human Genome By Robert Cook-Deegan Norton. 416 pp. $25 I…
Psalm #1
He does not linger with scoffers in the slow swirl, bubbled stem of settled bar beer, the…
First Visions
Even now they enter me like a humming tide of light, a bright cloud that waters the…
Sarai
It feels like going mad, this following – The voice from the starry night, the tent pegs…
Jacob’s Ladder
Suggesting that I get the shotgun to shoot down Grandmother’s ideals, Grandfather told me how his father…
