February 2003

San Francisco Sacred (I)
We do not customarily look to opera for moral edification. Examples abound: twins, separated at birth, reunite…
An Unnecessary Evil
When William Wilberforce rose in Parliament on the evening of May 11, 1789 to give his maiden…
The Embodied Self
In the very first year of his papacy, Pope John Paul II planted a time bomb in…
The Hemlock and the Cross
In early July 1759, three friends met at an inn called the Windmill outside the German city…
Briefly Noted 28
monastic missions: wall paintings in the monastery of st. antony at the red seaedited by elizabeth s.…
Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Human Dignity: The Challenge of Bioethics
Leon Kass has described himself as a strange man who writes strange and untimely books. Given the…
The Martin Buber Reader: Essential Writings
The 1920s and ’30s were a time of intense intellectual ferment in Germany. Radical questioning was the…
Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
Joseph Conrad prefaced one of his novels by announcing that the task of a writer is, “by…
The Puritan as Yankee: A Life of Horace Bushnell
The name of Horace Bushnell (1802-1876) was so well known in nineteenth-century America that when residents of…
Natural Rights & the Right to Choose
The anti-abortion movement has been struggling since 1992, when the Supreme Court reaffirmed Roe v. Wade and…
Poetry(February 2003)
The Arts that sensuously address The raising of the consciousness Bloom in a spread of themes and…