June/July 2001
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The Challenges of Ecumenism
As an ELCA Lutheran I share James Nuechterlein’s concerns in his “ Ecumenical Conundrums ” (March). I’m…
The End Of Abortion And The Meanings Of “Christian America”
The Public Square Who belongs to the community for which we accept common responsibility? That, I would…
The Seductions of Socrates
Socrates died 2,400 years ago this June. More precisely, he was executed, a criminal condemned on a…
Serpents, Doves, and Abortion
James K. Fitzpatrick’s “Pro“Life Loss of Nerve?” (FT, December 2000) identifies and addresses a weakness in the…
Rabbi Weinberg’s Agony
Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy: The Life and Works of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg, 1884–1966…
The Blight of Cultural Rights
Last December, soon after the Supreme Court had pulled the chain on Florida’s chad fest, Bill Ivey,…
The Stupid Party
One of the reasons intelligent young people are drawn disproportionately to the left in politics is that…
Politics at Prayer
Liturgy and politics don’t mix. For two things to mix, they have to be separable; liturgy and…
States’ Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776–1876
States’ Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776–1876 by forrest mcdonald university press of kansas, 304…
Law Without Values: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes
Law Without Values: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes by albert w. alschuler university of…
Briefly Noted 34
Examining the Catholic Intellectual Tradition edited by anthony j. cernera and oliver j. morgan sacred heart university…
Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century by jonathan glover yale university press, 480 pages, $13.21…
Thinking Through Vatican II
History of Vatican II: Volume II, The Formation of the Council’s Identity, First Period and Intersession, October…
A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by mary ann glendon…
Fighting Poverty with Virtue: Moral Reform and America’s Urban Poor, 1825–2000
Fighting Poverty with Virtue: Moral Reform and America’s Urban Poor, 1825–2000 by joel schwartz indiana university press,…
Poetry
My wife framed a poster decades ago, Take time ”picture of a daddy holding a kid. So…
Anthropic Coincidences
How important is the human race in the scheme of things? According to the Epistle to Diognetus,…
