January 2003
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January Letters 49
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A Grammar of the Self
You cannot call up any wilder vision than a city in which men ask themselves whether they…
The Disconsolate Philosopher
the making of a philosopher by colin mcginn harpercollins, 241 pp., $25.95 Philosophy is made for man, not…
Constitutional Persons: An Exchange on Abortion
Readers of First Things should by now be well-acquainted with the heated national debate—in part inspired by…
Moral Clarity in a Time of War
In Book Three of Tolstoy’s epic, War and Peace, the hero, Pierre Bezukhov, arrives at the battlefield…
Peddler of Paradise
Recently I witnessed a spectacle unlike anything I have seen in twenty years: a mass wedding celebrated…
Zelman: The Court Gets It Right
Several months on, we can begin to appreciate the full importance of the Supreme Court’s June 27,…
What Else to Expect When You’re Expecting
Last Christmas our parish hall displayed a Nativity painting by a local artist, showing a dark-haired woman…
Thirty Years of Empty Promises
In the long and arduous fight leading up to Roe v. Wade, the one thing feminists were…
The Conundrum of Evil
evil in modern thought: an alternative history of philosophy by susan neiman princeton university press, 358 pages,…
The Perils of Partisan History
Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth by Stephen F. Knott University Press of Kansas, 336 pages,…
Briefly Noted 27
Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Perspectivesedited by robert t. pennockmit press, 805…
Debating the Human Future
human cloning and human dignity: the report of the president’s council on bioethics with a foreward by…
In the Beginning Was the Word
launching liberalism: on lockean political philosophy by michael zuckert university press of kansas, 392 pages, $29.95 Paraphrasing…
St. Peter’s Square
The great bell tolls midnight stirring echoes: emperors, martyrs, prophets in chains. Above Rome’s Seven Hills life…
