November 1990
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Learning from the Cold War
It has become commonplace in the last year or so to refer to “the end of the…
Literature and Moral Purposes
It is tedious when a speaker begins by protesting modestly that he is inadequate to the task…
The Christian West?
Richard John Neuhaus: 1992 is scheduled to he a very big year for moving toward European unity.…
The Radical Paradigm and the New Racism
In confronting the race question in America today, we are faced with a paradox. On the one…
1789: A Requiem
Perhaps no English poem was more frequently cited during France’s 1989 Bicentennial year than William Wordsworth’s Prelude,…
Telling the American Catholic Story
Catholics in America have rarely taken the study of their history seriously. My own educational circumstances, which…
A Reply to My Critics: The Evolution Debate Continued
(Editors’ note: The October issue of First Things featured Phillip Johnson’s essay, “Evolution as Dogma: The Establishment…
Robert Bellah and Social Democracy
Robert Bellah of the University of California, Berkeley, is surely among the most influential commentators on religion…
The Uses of Homophobia
The best way to win an argument is to control the terms of discussion. Any high school…
Nature’s Call
In Tennessee Williams’ The Night of the Iguana the dissolute but not, he emphatically insists, officially “defrocked”…
Notes on the Culture Struggle: Dr. King in the Law Schools
The suggestion has been made on occasion in these pages that Americans are engaged in a Kulturkampf,…
An Open Letter on Abortion
I intend these remarks primarily for a specific group of people: those persons of good will who…
Binx and the Malaise
I heard the news in late May as I was walking into the Sno-White Cafe here in…
Constitutionalism and Modernity
Confronting the Constitution: The Challenge to Locke, Montesquieu, Jefferson, and the Federalists from Utilitarianism, Historicism, Marxism, Freudianism,…
Catholics Against Hitler
The Jesuits and the Third Reich by vincent a. lapomarda, s. j. the edwin mellen press, 375…
Talking About Writing
Conversations with Tom Wolfe edited by dorothy scura university press of mississippi, 296 pages, $29.95 Conversations with…
November Poem
Leaves no wind could wrench from earlier trees, in this windstill now let go. Their fall is…
Recollection of Light
Sitting at her brother’s drawing board, pale wood, color of her skin, she said she was drawing…
On Wholeness
Lying when you know you’re lying, like stuffing from a cushion, integrity gone makes a sad hole.…
Moon and Heart
Gibbous moon devoured by our shadow, …
