June/July 2000
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Correspondence
Mormons and (Other?) Christians Richard John Neuhaus’ essay “Is Mormonism Christian?” (March) is disappointing. As a first…
A Clash of Orthodoxies: An Exchange
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The Godlessness That Failed
The collapse of communism in 1989 was one of the greatest events of human history—one of the…
Stillbirth
I woke up feeling not too great. The weight of the baby pulled at my back and…
The “Dualities” of Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson: Political Writings Edited by Joyce Appleby and Terence Ball Cambridge University Press. 623 pp. $59.95 American…
Holy Land Pilgrimage: A Diary
Sunday, March 20 It’s not quite Egeria’s Diary of a Pilgrimage, but Evelyn Waugh’s Helena is terrific…
Modernist Impasse, Christian Opportunity
The dawn of a new millennium finds us at what some have called the modernist impasse. During…
J. S. Bach in Japan
Twenty-five years ago when there was still a Communist East Germany, I interviewed several boys from Leipzig’s…
The Politics of the Id
My first political epiphany came at the movies. I was about thirteen years old, and in those…
Suicide and the Alienated Life
Walter Benjamin once said that authors should write the article or book they looked for in the…
The Friendship Club
In 1997, in a seedy back alley just off Fond du Lac Avenue in Milwaukee’s inner city,…
The Rav: The World of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
The Rav: The World of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik: Volume 1 by aaron rakeffet-rothkoff ktav publishing, $377…
In Plato’s Cave
In Plato’s Cave by alvin b. kernan yale university press, 336 pages, $19.95 After growing up in…
Briefly Noted 24
Journal of a Soul: The Autobiography of Pope John XXIII translated by dorothy white image/doubleday, 509 pages,…
Hispanic/Latino Identity
Hispanic/Latino Identity: A Philosophical Perspective by jorge j. e. gracia wiley-blackwell, 255 pages, $32.60 The controversy in…
Teresa of Ávila: The Progress of a Soul
Teresa of Avila: The Progress of a Soul by cathleen medwick penguin random house, 304 pages, $12.36…
What Price Reform?
The Reform of the Papacy: Costly Call to Christian Unity by john r. quinn crossroad/herder & herder,…
Forgive Us Our Trespasses…
Early returns tend to vindicate, at least in part, the worries of cardinals and others when John…
Blaming Bob Jones
Among the nastier and more patently manipulative aspects of the presidential primary season was the accusation by…
So What’s the Big Deal About Partial Birth Abortion?
Outside the circles of pro-abortion extremism, almost all Americans are revulsed by partial-birth abortion. State after state…
The Pope at the National Prayer Breakfast
The National Prayer Breakfast, now in its fiftieth year, has been mainly a Protestant affair, with more…
Secularization in Theory and Fact
Many of the most influential secularization theorists have been Europeans, especially German and French. Since the eighteenth…
While We’re At It
• In 1993, as the hysteria over child sex abuse cases was beginning to decline in the…
