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Essays

Alien Nation

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square A truly odd thing has happened this past year. Well, of course many odd…

What’s Your Name?

Amy A. Kass and Leon R. Kass

The authors of this essay on names have just identified themselves. Well, not quite. For the sake…

The Crimes of Christopher Columbus

Dinesh D'Souza

Multiculturalism is presented by its advocates in the schools and universities as a benign alternative to monoculturalism.…

The Moral Incompetence of the Judiciary

Gregory C. Sisk

A society so riven that the spirit of moderation is gone, no court can save; . .…

The Atheism of the Gaps

Stephen M. Barr

Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of ConsciousnessBy Roger Penrose Oxford University Press, 457…

Getting Satan Behind Us

Jeffrey Burton Russell

The Origin Of SatanBy Elaine PagelsRandom House, 214 pages, $23 Elaine Pagels, Professor of Religion at Princeton,…

Opinion

For All the Saints

James Nuechterlein

We all know, from an early age, that we are going to die. But that abstract knowledge…

Defending Diversity

Gilbert Meilaender

Every spring a few of the better high school juniors in Ohio compete in the Ohio Tests…

Getting Real About Christian-Muslim Dialogue

C. M. Naim

A while back I had occasion to sit in the audience at two Christian-Muslim dialogues in Chicago…

To Be Conservative in Ireland: A Lament

David Quinn

The Irish have the dreadful habit of keeping about thirty years behind the times. This being so,…

Reviews

Voice of the Old Left

Andrew J. Bacevich

The Age of Extremes:A History of the World, 1914-1991. By Eric Hobsbawm. Pantheon Books, 627 pages, $30…

The Compleat Literary Man

Brian Murray

The Anti-Egotist:Kingley Amis, Man of Letters. By Paul Fussell Oxford University Press, 206 pages, $23 Kingsley Amis…

Seeking an Understanding of Faith

David F. Wells

The Assurance of Things Hoped For:A Theology of Christian Faith By Avery Dulles, S.J. Oxford University Press,…

The Moral Foundations of Jurisprudence

Russell Hittinger

The Return of George Sutherland:Restoring a Jurisprudence of Natural Rights By Hadley Arkes Princeton University Press, 297…

Lost in the Fifties

Mary Ann Glendon

The Lost City: Discovering the Forgotten Virtues of Neighborhood Life in the Chicago of the 1950s  By…