June/July 1999
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Fighting About the Fathers
Copyright (c) 1999 First Things 94 (June/July 1999): 2-7. Fighting About the Fathers If asked to list…
Bill Clinton and the American Character
The Public Square Bill Clinton and the American Character This is the long promised reflection on what…
The World According to Clinton
As part of its professed commitment to “complete the unfinished business of the Second World War,” the…
Thomas More for Our Season
The continuing contemporary interest in Thomas More (1478–1535) is hardly to be accounted for by popular fascination…
The University at the Heart of the Church
Copyright (c) 1999 First Things 94 (June/July 1999): 22-25. The apostolic constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae (ECE), “From…
Calvin and the Christian Calling
The sixteenth century was a period of tumultuous change in Western Europe. The need for some kind…
Letter from Budapest
Murderous cruise missiles crash into factories, office buildings, farm houses, all just across the border in Serbia,…
Quebec After Catholicism
In July 1997 Quebec City unveiled a bronze statue of Charles de Gaulle outside its walls. Though…
Suicide Pays
It is the unfortunate nature of man that financial imperatives often supersede important moral and ethical principles.…
Gays, Lesbians, and Lutherans
Just when you’ve talked yourself into thinking it might not be so bad to belong to the…
The First Modern Woman
Contrary to popular opinion, current American sexual practice began not in the “sexual revolution” of the 1960s…
The (Very) Last Word
The Last Word.By Thomas Nagel.Oxford University Press. 147 pp. $19.95. How refreshing and intellectually stimulating it is…
Seeking Something Spiritual
After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950’s.By Robert Wuthnow.University of California Press. 277 pp. $29.95 Shopping…
Which Conservatism?
A Case for Conservatism.By John Kekes.Cornell University Press. 239 pp. $29.95. In his important 1997 book Against…
Briefly Noted — 06/99
U.S. Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century: The Relevance of Realism. By Robert J. Myers Louisiana State…
A Paradoxical Genius
Daniel Defoe: The Life and Strange, Surprising Adventures.By Richard West.Carroll & Graf. 427 pp. $26. The best physical…
God…Sort of
The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life.By Paul Davies.Simon & Schuster. 400…
The Elliptical Exodus
The Hidden Book in the Bible.By Richard Elliott Friedman.HarperCollins. 402 pp. $25. I have used Richard Friedman’s…
