March 2006
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The Civic University
Forty-five years ago John Courtney Murray, S.J., published his groundbreaking work We Hold These Truths, which he…
In Moral Labor
Near the end of Reproduction and Responsibility, the 2004 report of the President’s Council on Bioethics, comes…
America the Comfortable
Alexis de Tocqueville was born in 1805, traveled across the United States and some of Canada for…
Briefly Noted 3
The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders’ Worldview. by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese…
A Jesus Just for Me
At least you can say this for Garry Wills”he isn’t afraid to change his mind. Whether that…
Apologetics, Unapologetically
Faculty wags have long wisecracked that contemporary Catholicism specializes not in apologetics but in apologies. Unfair as…
The Decent Drapery of Life
The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling By Gertrude Himmelfarb Ivan R. Dee, 288 pages,…
Religion and the Legitimate State
The idea of a social contract first makes its appearance in Plato’s Republic . Men are naturally…