June/July 1998
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The Extraordinary Politics of Alien Citizens
The Public Square There is the risk of being excessively self-referential, but friends tell me I should…
United Methodists at the End of the Mainline
The United Methodist Church stands at a critical moment. Founded in 1968 at a time of ecumenical…
Must the Truth Offend?
Jerry L. Walls J. A. Di Noia began his article on “Jesus and the World Religions” (FT,…
The Revenge of Conscience
Things are getting worse very quickly now. The list of what we are required to approve is…
Justice Brennan Lives
The late Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. was apotheosized at his death by the New York Times…
More Scandals of the Evangelical Mind
When I was a kid the closest thing to smutty literature I was able to get my…
Affirming Ourselves to Death
In his engagingly titled book, What’s Wrong with the World, G. K. Chesterton argued that his fellow…
George Rochberg’s Revolution
Some revolutions are noisy affairs from the start. The riot with which the Parisians greeted the premiere…
The Weird World of Sports
Sports nuts express their nuttiness in a variety of ways. My colleague Matt Berke, for example, is…
Waugh Revisited
The Life of Evelyn Waugh By Douglas Lane Patey Blackwell. 448 pp. $44.95 When St. Augustine wrote…
Briefly Noted 147
Huxley: From Devil’s Disciple to Evolution’s High Priest. By Adrian Desmond Addison-Wesley. 848 pages, $37.50 Thomas Henry…
Shut Up, He Explained
Answering the “Virtuecrats”: A Moral Conversation on Character Education By Robert Nash Teachers College Press (Columbia University)…
Modernity and Christianity Reconsidered
The Disenchantment of the World: A Political History of Religion By Marcel Gauchet. Tranlated by Oscar Burge,…
Conversing with an Absent God
Questions for Ecclesiastes By Mark Jarman Story Line Press 100 pp. $10 paper The literary climate in…
A World of Mendacity
The Soviet World of American Communism By Harvey Klehr, John Earls Haynes, and Kyrill M. Anderson. Yale…
Alexius and Giles
We beg you, mend the ways of pretend mendicants, imposters who pose pious and pitiful on our…
Open
What the God of Jacob said through Joseph, we sing In a psalm, accompanied by tambourine and…
In Umbria
Not that we prepared for it, or at first noticed in the papery rustle of the cottonwoods…
