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Essays

Anti-Semitism and Our Common Future

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square The current round of controversies has everything to do with the political shock of…

Jesus and the World Religions

J. A. Di Noia

Is Jesus Christ the unique mediator of salvation? I was one of five panelists assigned to address…

Work and Play

Michael Oakeshott

Without pretending to be scientific about it, the world may be imagined to be a vast collection…

Hard Truths About the Culture War

Robert H. Bork

What began to concern me more and more were theclear signs of rot and decadence germinating within…

Living with Numbers

John P. Sisk

After suffering through elementary arithmetic, geometry, algebra, and trigonometry it is easy to believe with the Pythagoreans…

The Eclipse of Fatherhood

Gilbert Meilaender

Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem, By David Blankenhorn Basic Books, 328 pages, $23. Suppose…

Opinion

I Heart New York

James Nuechterlein

When the Editor-in-Chief of this journal invited me to come East to work with him and his…

The Big Think

Joseph Bottum

Part of the problem with the awful kind of augury performed by Alvin Toffler and the futurists…

Who Broke the Baby?

Jean Garton

“The distance between life and death,” wrote columnist Paul Greenberg, “can be as small as a word.”…

After Darwin

John J. Reilly

The ice is beginning to crack in another section of the cold, hard surface of modernity. The…

Reviews

The Accursed One

Walter Sundberg

Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil. By Bernard McGinn Harper Collins 369 pp.…

Yesterday’s New Age

Phillip E. Johnson

Madame Blavatsky’s Baboon: History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America By Peter…

A Politics of (Sober) Hope

Janet Marsden

The Paradoxical Vision: A Public Theology for the Twenty-first Century By Robert Benne Fortress, 242 pp, $16…

Beyond Meaning

Bernard N. Nathanson

Medicine Ethics, and the Third Reich: Historical and Contemporary Issues Edited by John J. Michalczyk Sheed &…

On the Square

Baby Talk

Ryan Sayre Patrico

Life Itself: Abortion in the American Mind by Roger Rosenblatt Random House, 194 pages, $20 Roger Rosenblatt…