November 1995
Alien Nation
The Public Square A truly odd thing has happened this past year. Well, of course many odd…
What’s Your Name?
The authors of this essay on names have just identified themselves. Well, not quite. For the sake…
The Crimes of Christopher Columbus
Multiculturalism is presented by its advocates in the schools and universities as a benign alternative to monoculturalism.…
The Moral Incompetence of the Judiciary
A society so riven that the spirit of moderation is gone, no court can save; . .…
The Atheism of the Gaps
Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of ConsciousnessBy Roger Penrose Oxford University Press, 457…
Getting Satan Behind Us
The Origin Of SatanBy Elaine PagelsRandom House, 214 pages, $23 Elaine Pagels, Professor of Religion at Princeton,…
For All the Saints
We all know, from an early age, that we are going to die. But that abstract knowledge…
Defending Diversity
Every spring a few of the better high school juniors in Ohio compete in the Ohio Tests…
Getting Real About Christian-Muslim Dialogue
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
The Irish have the dreadful habit of keeping about thirty years behind the times. This being so,…
Voice of the Old Left
The Age of Extremes:A History of the World, 1914-1991. By Eric Hobsbawm. Pantheon Books, 627 pages, $30…
The Compleat Literary Man
The Anti-Egotist:Kingley Amis, Man of Letters. By Paul Fussell Oxford University Press, 206 pages, $23 Kingsley Amis…
Seeking an Understanding of Faith
The Assurance of Things Hoped For:A Theology of Christian Faith By Avery Dulles, S.J. Oxford University Press,…
The Moral Foundations of Jurisprudence
The Return of George Sutherland:Restoring a Jurisprudence of Natural Rights By Hadley Arkes Princeton University Press, 297…
Lost in the Fifties
The Lost City: Discovering the Forgotten Virtues of Neighborhood Life in the Chicago of the 1950s By…