January 1995
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Mean-Spirited?
Copyright (c) 1993 First Things 49 (January 1995): 2-7 Mean-Spirited? Roman Numerals & Orthodoxies Onward Christian Soldiers?…
A Pope of the First Millennium at the Threshold of the Third
The Public Square Hardly had heads stopped shaking in the publishing world over the astonishing sales of…
The Giving Tree: A Symposium
William F. May On one take, a trick picture at a carnival appears to be a gargoyle;…
Natural Law and a Nihilistic Culture
The term natural law is used to mean a body of ethical imperatives supposedly inherent in human…
The Challenge of the Catechism
I The Catechism of the Catholic Church is the boldest challenge yet offered to the cultural relativism…
The Inhuman Use of Human Beings
A panel of nineteen experts appointed by the National Institutes of Health has recommended government funding for…
Mutant Social Growths
On August 12, 1994, Russian workers were digging the foundation for a new bear cage at the…
The Scent of a Cult
The only difference between a cult and a religion is a hundred years,” said the editor of…
The Wide World of Sports
It all began-as did so many other bad things-in the sixties. It was during that obsessively political…
Toward a Post-Apollonian Theology
One of the central projects of the Enlightenment, as Paul Hazard has put it, was to place…
On The Other Hand: Cherchez la Femme, or, The Nanny’s Revenge
Some of us have hardly gotten over the shock of Harold Bloom’s discovery that a good portion…
PC Science
Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and its Quarrels With Science By Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt…
Bully Pulpiteers
The Roosevelts: An American Saga By Peter Collier, with David Horowitz Simon & Schuster 542 pp. $27.50…
Updating St. Anselm?
The Physics of Immortality by Frank J. Tipler. Doubleday 528 pp. $24.95 Cultures have their insistences. Navajos,…
The Responsibilities of Power
Idealism Without Illusions: U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1990s By George Weige Ethics and Public Policy Center…
Pluralism Without Relativism
The Morality of Pluralism By John Kekes. Princeton University Press 227 pp. $29.95 Surely most people over…
Recycling Christmas
Most of its dry needles lost with star and spheres and angels, the tree we children dragged…
A Scansion
If I spoke any language other than yours, I might be able to say it whole, as…
Australopithecus afarensis
Lucy- The ph.d.’s with picks and brushes sketched you up from your bones your strangely tilted pelvis…
Mother and Son, Kazakhstan
Men planted mushrooms in our sky, she says, with much white boiling of thunder-and seeds, many seeds…
For Pam: A Benediction of the Air
In every presence there is absence. When we’re together, the spaces between Threaten to enclose our bodies…
