March 1993
March Letters 94
Uses and Abuses of the Christian Right Your editorial “The Electoral Uses and Abuses of Religion” (December…
Assassins of a Lesser God
Jesus: A Life by A. N. Wilson Norton, 269 pages, $22.95 Live from Golgotha by Gore Vidal…
Dr. Death Speaks
The Public Square Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the retired pathologist who, as of this writing, has helped put…
Mainline Churches: The Real Reason for Decline
America’s so-called mainline Protestant churches aren’t what they used to be. For generations on end, the Methodists,…
Nihilism and the End of Law
When President Bush nominated Judge Clarence Thomas to a vacancy on the United States Supreme Court, liberals…
Other Plans: Journal of an Illness
I Ihad spent most of Saturday, February 29, 1992, Leap Year Day, working through a stack of…
The Newtape File: I
As compiled by Jean Bethke Elshtain, she having discovered a mysterious virus in her computer one day…
The Death of Superman
The man of steel, the one who routinely saved the planet from the ravages of evil invaders,…
Monkeys, MacKinnon & Marriage
Twenty years ago, the U.S. Army directed me to help monkeys copulate. In order to carry out…
The Other Okies
Rising in the West by Dan Morgan Knopf, 532 pages, $25 Just when you thought it was…
Fighting on Three Fronts
Jewish Polemics by Arthur Hertzberg Columbia University Press, 259 pages, $27.95 Jewish Polemics is a collection of…
The Last Protestant
A Far Glory: The Quest for Faith in an Age of Credulity by Peter I. Berger Free…
The Scholar as Polemicist
Judaism: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow by Hans Küng, translated by John Bowden Crossroad, 753 pages, $39.50 Readers…
About That Stolen Moment
“. . . saw little of note except. . . fortunately the Duomo was on that walk.…
Salt
Too often Truth is out of favor Softened To a fault Yet, I hold fast To Christ—the…
Earthworm
Seven meters an hour, top speed, pulling closer the edge of asphalt you cannot see. Mizzling rain…
After the Fall
The Final Revolution: The Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism by George Weigel Oxford University Press,…