June/July 1990
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Editorial: Post-Cold War Newspeak
A terrible linguistic confusion has set in following the Revolution of 1989, and we will likely just…
Black Dignity and the Common Good
(Editors’ Note: This paper was originally presented on February 12, 1990, as the Black History Month lecture…
Ecumenism Without Illusions: A Catholic Perspective
From a Christian point of view, the twentieth century might well be called the century of ecumenism.…
Law, Laws, and Human Community
All I have is a voice To undo the folded lie, The Romantic lie in the brain…
The Crisis of the West: Machiavelli, Rousseau, and the Imperative of Salvation
What is the crisis of the West? In some cases the sense of this frequently asked if…
The Psychology of Altruism
In his 1987 book Hope Within History, Bible scholar Walter Brueggemann argues that when people are in…
East Germany: Luther vs. Lenin
It is hard to disagree with the Reverend Johannes Richter of Leipzig’s Thomaskirche when he says that…
The Perfectly Raised Consciousness
Reflecting on the rash of outraged protests against allegedly sexist, racist, and homophobic slurs erupting in our…
Sakharov’s Legacy
At his funeral a close friend remarked: “It’s been said a village cannot stand without its preacher.…
Ecotastrophe Again
The drumbeat for apocalypse can once again be heard in the media. Almost two decades after the…
Schools on Purpose
For each of the past twenty-one years the Gallup Organization has conducted a nationwide poll on attitudes…
Michael Harrington’s Socialism
Socialism: Past and Future by michael harringtonarcade publishing, 320 pages, $19.95 If one is going to be…
Never the Twain
Japan: In the Land of the Brokenhearted by michael shapiro henry holt & company, 254 pages, $19.95 …
Feminist Theodicy
Women and Evil by nell noddings university of california press, 284 pages, $25 For centuries theologians and…
The Fate of Republicanism
Revolt against Destiny: An Intellectual History of the United States by paul a. carter columbia university press,…
The Transcendent in the Mundane
Ordinary Time by a. g. mojtabai doubleday, 223 pages, $17.95 A.G. Mojtabai’s nonfiction work, Blessed Assurance, won…
Leaf with Berry
At the last rock of the last ledge of the last climb, retreat blocked, he went to…
The Shadows
Easy to forget, how shadows are light’s creatures, out of dark, out of thinning dark come delicately,…
Spider
Z—the fly is at the sill. Z Z—I am silent, riding the center Of my web, the…
