March 1990
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Democratic Conservatism
A question much discussed in the last few years was what would happen to the “conservative coalition”…
Editorial: Putting First Things First
When in the course of human events . . . .” Thus Jefferson and his associates, evincing…
The Capitalism & Morality Debate
The decade of the 1980s has proved to be an ideological watershed. It has been marked by…
The Way They Were, The Way We Are: Bioethics and the Holocaust
To inquire into connections between the Holocaust and bioethical debates today assumes a hopeful estimate of the…
The Importance of Being Catholic: A Protestant View
(Editor’s Note: This paper was originally given as the tenth Paul Wattson Lecture at the University of…
The Return of the Catholic Whig
In his famous Postscript to The Constitution of Liberty, Friedrich von Hayek identified Thomas Aquinas as “the…
Christians and Economic Development
The 1980s may well be looked back upon as a decade of intellectual reformation in the so-called…
Editorial: Redefining Abortion Politics
Beginning with the Supreme Court’s Webster decision of last July, Americans were delighted, distressed, or simply puzzled…
The Closed Mind of Arthur Schlesinger
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.’s widely noticed essay in the New York Times Book Review last summer, “The Opening…
A Culture of Poverty?
I hadn’t thought of Jerry Carter for at least five years. I probably wouldn’t have thought of…
Reflections on the Flag-Burning Case
One of my jobs as a summer reporter for the The Berkshire Eagle during my college and…
The Catholic Moment: Blocked, Botched, or Transformed?
Secularization theology. The death of God. Imperial overstretch. The end of history. The half-life of an intellectual…
Between Jews and Christians
Jewish-Christian Dialogue: A Jewish Justificationby david novakoxford university press, 194 pages, $24.95 David Novak’s new book is…
Liberalism and Catholicism
Free Persons and the Common Goodby michael novakmadison books, 244 pages, $17.95 A number of commentators— among…
Modernism & Its Consequences
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Ageby modris ecksteinshoughton mifflin (a…
Catholicism in America
Catholicism and the Renewal of American Democracy by george weigel paulist press, 218 pages, $11.95 Forty years…
Poverty and Public Policy
In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government by Charles Murray Simon and Schuster, 341 pages, $19.95 In…
God’s Affable Principle of Cohesion
I Merely the look of it, buttercup at the edge of the “Lawn Falls” where the water…
Old Havana
. . . pongee-colored girls in white dresses the sun shone through in multiple haloes where they lay alongside…
Ut Pictura Poesis
The St. Jo River whirling full around the South Bend rich and dark as a negresse en…
