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Essays

Natural Law and the Constitution

Robert H. Bork

Natural law seems an unlikely topic for extensive television coverage, nor would one expect United States senators…

Religion & the Court: A New Beginning?

Mary Ann Glendon

Mention the First Amendment to any lawyer, and the odds are excellent that he or she will…

Coming to Terms with the East German Past

John P. Burgess

It has been more than two years since that fateful Thursday evening in East Berlin. At a…

What I Saw at the American Academy of Religion

Paul V. Mankowski

The American Academy of Religion, in its statement of purpose, calls itself “an inclusive learned society and…

For the Religious Freedom Restoration Act

W. Cole Durham, Jr., Edward McGlynn Gaffney, Douglas Laycock, and Michael W. McConnell

For those who are committed to protecting the unborn and to preserving our traditional moral heritage, it…

Reason Public and Private: The Pannenberg Project

Richard John Neuhaus

There are numerous obstacles to making the connections between religion and public life. For some moderns, a…

Opinion

Notes from Underground

Midge Decter

A word in your ear ¯A well-known physicist told me that a popular blogger told him that…

Editorial: Christians, Jews, and Anti-Semitism

The Editors

Call it a public service. When National Review devoted almost an entire issue to William F. Buckley’s…

The Big Economic Lie

Michael Novak

There they go again. The presidential election of 1992 is bringing out among politicians and the media…

The RU-486 Icon

Peter J. Leithart

In A. S. Byatt’s recent novel, Possession, the main character notes that the one unchallenged dogma of his generation…

Reviews

The Pizza Theory

Robert Royal

Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians by jeffrey burton russell praeger, 117 pages, $12.95 Revisionist…

Nothing But Muck

Robert Goldberg

Scandal: The Culture of Mistrust in American Politics by Suzanne Garment Random House, 335 pages, $23 At…

Declinism—and Fall?

Dean C. Curry

Why America Doesn’t Work by Chuck Colson and Jack Eckerd Word Publishing, 227 pages, $16.99 In Why…

Mere Christianity

William F. May

Faith and Faithfulness: Basic Themes in Christian Ethics by Gilbert Meilaender University of Notre Dame Press, 211…

Poetry

Working with Clay

Stephanie Weller Hanson

Like the imprintof my two thumbs in clay,so you appear, my Lord,by what you leave behind. Disguisedin…

“Hotel Room” (Edward Hopper, 1931)

Diane Bonds

No angel with uplifted hand, no symbolof the Holy Spirit, gliding down ongilded beams—and for all we…

The Green Stick

Mary Freeman

“I used to believe that there was a green stick,buried on the edge of a ravine .…