February 1996
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Counting By Race
The Public Square Last fall the nation was seized by a spasm of race-related excitements. Not really,…
Why We Can’t All Just Get Along
Whenever I teach Paradise Lost, the hardest thing to get across is that God is God. Students…
Law of Moses, Law of Nature
I Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by…
Why We Can Get Along
“The religious person should not seek an accommodation with liberalism; he should seek to rout it from…
Stanley Fish replies to Richard John Neuhaus
Father Neuhaus mistakes my position when he says (or implies) that I pit freedom of inquiry against…
The Last Temptation Reconsidered
When presidential candidate Bob Dole castigated the entertainment industry for excessive and graphic use of violence, it…
Facing Up to Infanticide
Every philosopher knows, at last, that not all ethical systems are equally good. We demand that a…
Lost in the Movies
Last year I saw two truly vile movies, Pulp Fiction and Kids. The first turned my stomach.…
Form Over Matter
Early in November 1995, the administrative board of the United States Catholic Conference issued the latest version…
Truths and Untruths About the Catholic Alliance
“Blatant untruths” are among the sins perpetrated by the Catholic Alliance, according to Bishop Howard Hubbard of…
The Uses of Clerical Scandal
When the Pope visited the United States last fall, the media indulged in a predictably frenzied examination…
The 1934 Million Man March
The following is a report filed by Albert Goodwill, an American journalist, after the 1934 Nazi party…
An Illiberal Democrat
Jihad vs. McWorld: How the World Is Both Falling Apart and Coming Together” And What This Means…
Briefly Noted 123
The Benedictional of Aethelwold By Robert Deshman Princeton University Press, 287 pages, $99.50 A true historian of…
Naturalism on Trial
Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law, and Education By Phillip E. Johnson…
The Domesticated Nietzsche
Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist by peter berkowitz harvard university press, 313 pages, $35 A consensus…
Roundup of Books on Waco
The Davidian Massacre: Disturbing Questions About Waco Which Must Be Answered By Carol Moore Gun Owners of…
Instructing the Laity
The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism By Wendy Steiner University of Chicago Press,…
Chastity
To a body pierced by pleasure_grant an adultrous heart, grant unslaked desire,_command the ungelded, though wildly off_balance:…
Parts of Speech
God is not an interference, some extra object clotting with dark among the branches of maples. Or…
Holy Unction
I "Give me oil in my lamp, keep me burning, burning, burning," we belted out on the…
Brain Music
No God would make a world in such poor taste, scoffed Darwin, thinking of blind nature’s waste,…
