May 1994
The Making of a President?
The Making of a President? It was with eager anticipation that I read the Opinion “A President…
Sex, Religion, Virtue, and Reward
The Public Square Does Job fear God for nought? That is the key to the entire story,…
The Hipster and the Organization Man
From all appearances, it is now back in style to be critical of American individualism. Indeed, that…
Abortion Facts and Feelings II
In this article, James Q. Wilson responds to Hadley Arkes comments in our previous issue . James…
The Corrected Jesus
The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus Edited by Robert W. Funk, Roy…
Lutherans in Sexual Commotion
By almost every standard for measuring such things the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America stands on the…
Evangelicals & Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium
As the Second Millennium draws to a close, the Christian mission in world history faces a moment…
Recalling America
Since 1950 I have worked with my many sisters from around the world as one of the…
The Very Modern Christian Right
When the Christian right attacked what was understood to be a recently achieved secular humanist hegemony in…
The Saints of AIDS
On the day after World AIDS Day, the displays that blocked the way into the main door…
A Matter of Principles?
The political theorist J. G. A. Pocock once enunciated his First Law of interdisciplinary communication: “Nearly all…
Briefly Noted 106
The Return to Scripture in Judaism and Christianity. Edited by Peter Ochs Paulist Press. 378 pp. $18.95…
The Moral Tradition of American Constitutionalism
H. Jefferson Powell wants the reader to take very seriously the title of this thoughtful and thought-provoking…
Making Men Moral
That any attempt by the state to legislate morals must be illegitimate has become a platitude of…
Healing Words
Do you pray? How often? Whom (or what) do you pray to (or for)? Does your prayer…
On the Other Hand: Bipartisan Death Rows
There used to be an ideological division of labor in what might be called the terminal issues…