May 1992
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Naming Good and Evil
Eighty-one years ago, G. K. Chesterton wrote a book entitled What’s Wrong With the World? His answer to…
Academic Religion: Playground of the Vandals
“When you say ‘hill,’” the Queen interrupted, “I could show you hills, in comparison with which you’d…
Catholicism and the American Proposition
The year 1991 marked the centenary of modern Catholic social teaching—the issuing of the encyclical Rerum Novarum by Pope…
Natural Law and the Law: An Exchange
The March issue of First Things featured an essay by Robert H. Bork, “Natural Law and the…
The Achievement of Jaroslav Pelikan
In 1971 the University of Chicago Press published The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100–600), the first…
The Naked Public Square: A Metaphor Reconsidered
Christian groups called “Adventist” trace their roots to 1844, the year that some had fixed for the…
Editorial: The Corruption of the Would-Be First Estate
The fourth estate now considers itself to be the first estate, and not without reason. In public…
The Rapist and the Virgin
It may just have been a throwaway line, a presumed witticism, to which he gave little thought;…
Suya Wars
Most Americans believe, when they think of the issue at all, that our disputes over the role…
What the Bishops Don’t Know About Families
The U.S. Catholic Bishops’ most recent contribution to our national debate on the family, a statement entitled…
Editorial: The Year that Conservatism Turned Ugly
To judge simply by the responses we have received, a good many readers did not like the…
The Education Reform Dodge
Smart Schools, Smart Kids: Why Do Some Schools Work? by Edward B. Fiske Simon & Schuster 303…
The American Battlefield
Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America by James Davison Hunter Basic Books, 416 pages, $25 On…
TV’s America
Watching America: What Television Tells Us About Our Lives by S. Robert Lichter, Linda S. Lichter, and…
From Aquinas to Aquarius
Men Astutely Trained:A History of the Jesuits in the American Centuryby Peter McDonough Free Press, 616 pages, $24.95…
Eden Park
this is not the woodsand wildlife is nottwo chipmunks scamperingacross the sidewalk the trees stand herein landscaped…
Repent Ye!
Jesus is coming repent Ye!reads the scrawled signof this man who is not John the Baptistbut who…
Safari
The white man has laid down his burdenin the middle of Broadwayand under the exhausted plane treesblack…
Passing Port Royal
for Wendell Berry I see the treesyou’ve seen and knownpoised in mute witnessthe baled hay hunchedlike insatiable…
