June/July 2000
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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
For most of his fifty years as Orthodoxy’s premier thinker, Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik was known simply as…
In Plato’s Cave
After growing up in poverty in rural Wyoming, Alvin Kernan joined the prewar Navy in 1941 to…
Briefly Noted 24
Journal of a Soul: The Autobiography of Pope John XXIII. Translated by Dorothy White. Image/Doubleday. 453 pp.…
Hispanic/Latino Identity
The controversy in the United States over multiculturalism in and beyond education has now faded”perhaps because Nathan…
Teresa of Ávila: The Progress of a Soul
Most people know St. Teresa of Ávila (1515“1582), the Spanish mystic, prolific spiritual writer, and indomitable Carmelite…
What Price Reform?
The Reform of the Papacy: Costly Call to Christian Unity by John R. Quinn Crossroad/Herder & Herder,…
