February 2004
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Last Time
My original idea was a quiet exit, entirely without fuss: out the door and back to Indiana.…
Alone in the Academy
I was starting the second year of a Ph.D. program in U.S. history at the University of…
The Enemies of Religious Liberty
It is common for religious believers to lament the Supreme Court’s barely concealed hostility to the free…
Europe’s Problem—and Ours
Go back in your mind’s eye to the fall of 1940, the fateful period that Winston Churchill…
Letters
The Church and the Holocaust To the extent that it is read by Catholic apologists and others…
The Family: Discovering the Obvious
For many years now, and often inadvertently, secular as well as religious researchers have been amassing facts…
True Fictions of Fatherhood
About two-and-a-half years ago, my wife and I sat in a lawyer’s office trying not to think…
Children at Risk
At first glance, Hardwired to Connect, the recent report from the Commission on Children at Risk, a group…
Founding Fathers?
John Winthrop: America’s Forgotten Father.by Francis J. Bremer.Oxford University Press. 478 pp. $39.95. William Bradford’s Books: Of…
Briefly Noted — 02/04
Questions of Faith: A Skeptical Affirmation of Faith. By Peter L. Berger. Blackwell. 187pp. $24.95. The noted…
Accomplishment––or Fame
Human Accomplishment: the Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 BC to 1950.by Charles Murray.Harper…
The Three Rings of Monotheism
The Monotheists: Jew, Christians, and Muslims in Conflict and Competition.by F.E. Peters.Volume I: the Peoples of God;…
Taming the Vindictive Passions
Getting Even: Forgiveness and Its Limits.by Jeffrie G. Murphy.Oxford University Press. 152 pp. $21. In 1995, at…
Common Sense and Common Law
Common-Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism.by James R. Stoner, Jr.University Press of Kansas. 208 pp. $29.95. For most…
