May 1997
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Morality Successfully Imposed
The Public Square Morality Successfully Imposed A reader who has been keeping count claims that we’ve had…
The Jews as the Christians Saw Them
For two generations Christian theology has been engaged in a fundamental rethinking of Christianity’s relation to Judaism…
Reforming Education: A Whole New World
Does Money Matter? Edited by Gary Burtless. Brookings, 296 pages, $39.95. Catholic Education: Homeward Bound By Kimberly…
The Liberalism of John Paul II
It is no secret that when Centesimus Annus appeared in 1991 some of us viewed it not…
Catholics at Home
Elsewhere in this issue (“Catholics in Exile,” p. 9) Leonard R. Klein responds to my January column,…
A Bible Fit for Children
In a famous passage from Science and the Modern World, Alfred North Whitehead gives this counsel to…
Abortion, Breast Cancer, and Ideology
In innumerable newspaper and television stories shortly after New Year’s, the reassuring news was passed to the…
The English Patient Plays Casablanca
If it does nothing else, the success of the film version of The English Patient (nine Academy…
Catholics in Exile
In “The Unhappy Fate of Optional Orthodoxy” (Public Square, January), Richard John Neuhaus proposes “Neuhaus’ Law” concerning…
Rethinking Ritual
Looking at the Liturgy: A Critical View of Its Contemporary FormBy Aidan NicholsIgnatius, 129 pages, $11.95 Something…
Who Are You?
The Clash of Civilization and the Remaking of World Order By Samuel P. Huntington. Simon &Schuster, 367…
Briefly Noted 136
The Diversity Machine: The Drive to Change the “White Male Workplace” By Frederick R. Lynch Free Press,…
Mere Joy
Life as We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child By Michael Bérubé. Pantheon,…
Strained Mercy
Seduced by Death: Doctors, Patients, and the Dutch Cure By Herbert Hendin. Norton, 256 pages, $27.50. Somewhere…
Binnacles and Garlic
Sympathetic Attractions: Magnetic Practices, Beliefs, and Symbolism in Eighteenth-Century England By Patricia Fara. Princeton, 317 pages, $45.…
Darn Dogwoods!
He did it again, splashing snow on those stunted beaming bushes who then lord it over our…
