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Opinion

The Civic University

Stephen M. Fields S.J.

Forty-five years ago John Courtney Murray, S.J., published his groundbreaking work We Hold These Truths, which he…

In Moral Labor

Agnes Howard

Near the end of Reproduction and Responsibility, the 2004 report of the President’s Council on Bioethics, comes…

America the Comfortable

David A. Westbrook

Alexis de Tocqueville was born in 1805, traveled across the United States and some of Canada for…

Reviews

Briefly Noted 3

Various

The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders’ Worldview. by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese…

A Jesus Just for Me

Edward T. Oakes

At least you can say this for Garry Wills”he isn’t afraid to change his mind. Whether that…

Apologetics, Unapologetically

Thomas G. Guarino

Faculty wags have long wisecracked that contemporary Catholicism specializes not in apologetics but in apologies. Unfair as…

The Decent Drapery of Life

Joseph Bottum

The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling By Gertrude Himmelfarb Ivan R. Dee, 288 pages,…

Religion and the Legitimate State

Alan L. Mittleman

The idea of a social contract first makes its appearance in Plato’s Republic . Men are naturally…