March 1996
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March Letters 124
Race and the O. J. Verdict I offer two comments on James Nuechterlein’s otherwise excellent column on…
The Catholic Luther
I Ecumenical skeptics today often argue that presumed doctrinal convergence between Protestants and Roman Catholics only papers…
Who You Are II
The Public Square We did it in 1992, and now we’ve gone and done it again. After…
The Problem With Liberalism
Believers in the congregation of my youth took for granted that Christianity and liberal politics were opposed.…
Medicalizing Abortion Decisions
Moral decisions related to medical matters require the unbiased representations of competent medical authority. Information may come…
Welfare: Moynihan’s Counsel of Despair
Talk to those who know about such things and they’ll tell you that Daniel Patrick Moynihan has…
Girard Among the Girardians
Violence Unveiled By Gil Bailie Crossroad, 293 pages, $24.95 The Gospel and the Sacred By Robert G.…
Evangelizing Theology
It might seem paradoxical, to say the least, to describe the Catholic Church as “evangelical”—a term that…
Idols of the Century
Traditionalists find themselves ill at ease”to put it mildly”in today’s postmodernist intellectual world, a world whose “animating…
At Stake in the Enlightenment
Christian conservatives generally subscribe to two strongly held propositions: that a return to Christian values is necessary…
Faithful for Life
Shortly before his death in 1963 Pope John XXIII issued an encyclical with a novel distribution. Originally,…
To Murmer Name Upon Name
Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? That…
Tocqueville’s Mirror
Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy By Pierre Manent Rowan & Littlefield, 148 pages, $40 To love…
The Ordinary Transformed
The Ordinary Transformed: An Inquiry into the Christian Vision of Transcendence By R.R. Reno Eerdmans, 222 pages,…
Briefly Noted 124
Hannah Arendt/Martin Heidegger By Elzbieta Ettinger Yale University Press, 139 pages, $16 This slight volume has become…
The Circus of Death
The Gravest Show on Earth: America in the Age of Aids By Elinor Burkett Houghton Mifflin, 375…
Rescuing Feminism from the Feminists
”Feminism is not the Story of My Life”: How Today’s Feminist Elite Has Lost Touch with the…
New Paradigms for Old
What Comes Next By James P. Pinkerton Hyperion, 404 pages, $24.95 Full Disclosure: I have known Jim…
