November 1997
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Recovering Christendom
The Desire of the Nations: Rediscovering the Roots of Political Theology by Oliver O’Donovan. Cambridge University Press,…
“We Hold These Truths”-An Argument to be Engaged
The Public Square “We Hold These Truths”––An Argument to be Engaged Astute as ever, my friend Robert…
Atrocities Not Fit to Print
Since January 1996, when a coalition of Christian and Jewish activists began working to publicize in America…
The Denomination Called Catholic
By now, nearly everyone has heard the statistics. From the end of Vatican II in 1965 to…
The Unraveling of Scientific Materialism
In a retrospective essay on Carl Sagan in the January 9, 1997 New York Review of Books,…
Love, Hate, and Jewish Identity
On its face, the subject of Judaism and Jewish identity should not count for much in the…
Pastoral Concerns
In his wise and engaging essay elsewhere in this issue (“I Do?”, p. 14), David Blankenhorn expresses…
I Do?
To understand why the United States has the highest divorce rate in the world, go to some…
Typology and the Public Church
One of the contributions of twentieth-century Catholic “nouvelle théologie,” and of Henri de Lubac and Jean Danielou…
Contrition in the Age of Spin Control
It can hardly have escaped the notice of persons interested in religion and public life that there…
Episcopalians: The Leftward Center
The modern Episcopal Church is the oddest of churches: scrupulous about maintaining tradition in matters of worship…
Reclaiming Natural Law
Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law by J. Budziszewski. InterVarsity Press, 240 pages, $14.99.…
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Plato on the Human Paradox by Robert J. O’Connell, S.J. Fordham Fordham University Press, 162 pages, $30…
Saving Liberalism’s Soul
The Growth of the Liberal Soul by david walsh university of missouri press, $39.95 On good liberal…
Only Connect
Le Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language by Douglas R. Hofstadter. Basic…
Statecraft and Stagecraft
American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America’s Most Powerful Church by Charles R. Morris. Times…
A Mystery Wrapped in an Enigma
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory by David Chalmers. Oxford University Press, 414 pages,…
Sapphics, Refusing Politics
For R. If I have seen geese low on the east horizon, seen the cold reeds strain…
Catching My Grandson
Oh, look , old Galileo whispered, look, we move . And burning, burning in the sky, the…
Distinction
I can’t cry innocent in any court: Dogged by enemies, I ran, was caught. Pitched in a…
