June/July 1995
Anti-Semitism and Our Common Future
The Public Square The current round of controversies has everything to do with the political shock of…
Jesus and the World Religions
Is Jesus Christ the unique mediator of salvation? I was one of five panelists assigned to address…
Work and Play
Without pretending to be scientific about it, the world may be imagined to be a vast collection…
Hard Truths About the Culture War
What began to concern me more and more were theclear signs of rot and decadence germinating within…
Living with Numbers
After suffering through elementary arithmetic, geometry, algebra, and trigonometry it is easy to believe with the Pythagoreans…
The Eclipse of Fatherhood
Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem, By David Blankenhorn Basic Books, 328 pages, $23. Suppose…
I Heart New York
When the Editor-in-Chief of this journal invited me to come East to work with him and his…
The Big Think
Part of the problem with the awful kind of augury performed by Alvin Toffler and the futurists…
Who Broke the Baby?
“The distance between life and death,” wrote columnist Paul Greenberg, “can be as small as a word.”…
After Darwin
The ice is beginning to crack in another section of the cold, hard surface of modernity. The…
The Accursed One
Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil. By Bernard McGinn Harper Collins 369 pp.…
Yesterday’s New Age
Madame Blavatsky’s Baboon: History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America By Peter…
A Politics of (Sober) Hope
The Paradoxical Vision: A Public Theology for the Twenty-first Century By Robert Benne Fortress, 242 pp, $16…
Beyond Meaning
Medicine Ethics, and the Third Reich: Historical and Contemporary Issues Edited by John J. Michalczyk Sheed &…
Baby Talk
Life Itself: Abortion in the American Mind by Roger Rosenblatt Random House, 194 pages, $20 Roger Rosenblatt…