November 1996
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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The Taming of the Church
The Public Square (Wherein the author discerns improbable connections between two archbishops at Oxford, centuries apart, one…
The End of Democracy? The Judicial Usurpation of Politics
Introduction Articles on “judicial arrogance” and the “judicial usurpation of power” are not new. The following symposium…
The End of Democracy? Our Judicial Oligarchy
This last term of the Supreme Court brought home to us with fresh clarity what it means…
The End of Democracy? Kingdoms in Conflict
In America today, we have very nearly reached the completion of a long process I can only…
A Crisis of Legitimacy
In Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), the Supreme Court made abortion the benchmark of its own legitimacy,…
The End of Democracy? The Tyrant State
America’s democratic experiment has been remarkably successful. Constitutional democracy in the United States has survived a civil…
The End of Democracy? Introduction
Articles on “judicial arrogance” and the “judicial usurpation of power” are not new. The following symposium addresses…
The End of Democracy? A Culture Corrupted
We were taping, early in May, a program for public television dealing with “same-sex marriage.” Opposite me…
Rights Without Right
It is not true that political candidates hate to confront moral issues. The fact is, they rush…
Protestant Principle, Catholic Substance
The intramural dialogue over what Mark Noll has called “the scandal of the evangelical mind” worries that…
The Politics of Architecture
I was driving through Cambridge, Massachusetts with three friends recently when it struck me how well we…
The End of Ideology?
If one were to judge from the current presidential campaign, one could only conclude that our current…
Flags, Tradition, and Charity
The afflictions of a Southerner living above the Mason-Dixon line are many, but they have certain compensations.…
Treating the Person
Testing the Medical Covenant: Active Euthenasia and Health Care Reform By William F. May Eerdmans, 146 pages,…
Briefly Noted 130
God of Abraham By L. E. Goodman Oxford University Press, 384 pages, $49.95 A sustained argument for…
After Scholasticism
Contending with Modernity: Catholic Higher Education in the Twentieth Century By Philip Gleason Oxford University Press, 434…
The Shadow Man
The Shadow Man: A Daughter’s Search for her Father By Mary Gordon Random House, 274 pages, $24…
A Saint for Our Times
Augustine and the Limits of Politics By Jean Bethke Elshtain University of Notre Dame Press, 118 pages,…
Beyond Political Intrigue
History of Vatican II Volume I: Announcing and Preparing Vatican Council II-Toward a New Era in Catholicism…
Who Ordereth All Things Mightily
Science and Religion: From Conflict to Conversation By John F. Haught Paulist Press, 225 pages Religion does…
