May 1993
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Against Peer Fear
In response to many inquiries, we are pleased to report that Father Neuhaus continues to recover very…
The Skimpole Syndrome: Childhood Unlimited
Let me re-introduce you to Mr. Harold Skimpole. Skimpole lives in the pages of Charles Dickens’ Bleak…
Sex and the Single Life
What is it that Christians ought to say and do about the issue of sexual relations between…
The World’s Oldest Virtue
Whenever there is a contest between etiquette and acknowledged virtues, etiquette loses. Hardly anyone would dispute the…
Saving the World
In the Fall 1991 issue of New Perspectives Quarterly , which is very usefully devoted to the…
St. Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years 1903–1939 by martin stannard norton (1987), 537 pages, $10.95 paper Evelyn Waugh: The…
National Service as Duty and Perk
I know a man who spends four or five weeks of every year in the army. He…
The Newtape File III
Dear Nephew, I trust it did not escape your notice that I have eliminated an affectionate diminutive…
Domesticating Darwin
In Search of Human Nature:The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought by carl degler…
An Authentic Modernity
The Ethics of Authenticity by charles taylor harvard university press, 142 pages, $17.95 To grow up in…
The Homesick Homeless
Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy by jay tolson simon & schuster, 544 pages,…
The Complexities of Natural Law
Natural Law Theory: Contemporary Essays edited by robert p. george clarendon/oxford university press, 371 pages, $39.95 A…
Choice Trees
In primal garden the tree stands laden, splendor consummate, grace-rooted, owned by him who warns, don’t eat…
Man in a Glacier
The mountainside failed. But when we saw that deep spot the dead sun came back heavy as…
Black Spruce
From a distance it looked like ordinary wood, a snuff-colored twig one might rake for burning. Surfaced …
Contraries
Tell me everything you know, the sapient sage asked the seeker, and, since the former was, in…
Aceldama
Eternity is uncorrupted light; the world proceeds by interrupting sight, exchanging day and night. Half the acts…
Grandparents
Thinking of my grandparents, I stand for a moment on the curb of a street they often…
