January 2008

Not Your Father’s Pornography
Back in college, before he was a successful lawyer and practicing Catholic, a friend of mine was…
Law and Moral Purpose
The obligations and purposes of law and government are to protect public health, safety, and morals, and…
Nietzsche’s Deeper Truth
At the outset of On the Genealogy of Morals, Friedrich Nietzsche reports that his polemical book of…
Catholic Scholars, Secular Schools
At Fordham University, while I was teaching there in the late 1960s, it was said that most…
Religion and Politics: “The Great Separation”
Religion and Politics: “The Great Separation” I approached Mark Lilla’s new book with considerable interest and with…
As Justice Kennedy Said …
When Samuel Alito replaced Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court in 2006, observers predicted that Anthony…
Altering the Psalms
The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary by robert alter w.w. norton, 560 pages, $35 The…
An Unbooming Business
After the Baby Boomers:How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion by robert wuthnow…
Lawless Ends
Law as a Means to an End: Threat to the Rule of Law by brian z. tamanaha…
The Poetry of Paradise
Paradiso by dante alighieri translated by robert and jean hollander doubleday, 944 pages, $40 With the publication…
Archimedes Quatrain
Jerusalem, fulcrum of our uplift, Is not this rough plank the Cross, laid aslant Golgotha, The lever…
Prayer for Jamaica
Lord of the storm, spare Kingston’s unkempt port, spare Spanish Town and even Montego Bay. Open your…