November 2007
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The Politics of Bioethics
Is “human dignity” a useful concept in bioethics? Does it shed important light on the whole range…
Plato as Statesman
As Max Weber observed in Politics as a Vocation and Science as a Vocation—and as borne out…
Conscience and Authority
Nothing is more common in life than a seeming tension between the freedom of individuals and the…
The Next President
Nat Hentoff From the beginning, so very long ago, of the 2008 presidential campaign, many of the…
November Letters
Living Religious Lives Permit me to add my own experience in support of “The Life and Death…
Fantasy and Faith
The winter I was ten, my teacher read A Wrinkle in Time aloud to our class, a…
Why Nigeria Matters
More than ten thousand Nigerians have lost their lives in communal unrest since 1999. One incident in…
On the Recent Publication of Kahlil Gibran’s COLLECTED WORKS
I Expansive and yet vacuous is the prose of Kahlil Gibran, And weary grows the mind doomed…
Defending Zion
Jews and Power by ruth r. wisse schocken, 256 pages, $19.95 Ruth Wisse is a distinguished scholar:…
Written in Stone
The Law of God: The Philosophical History of an Idea by rémi brague university of chicago, 336…
Spending the Future
The Legitimacy of Philanthropic Foundations: United States and European Perspectives edited by kenneth prewitt et al. russell…
Briefly Noted 209
The Physics of Christianity by frank j. tipler doubleday, 320 pages, $27.50 People who do research in…
Auto da Fe
1 The walls hear The windows see Inside I burn No one comes To rescue me It…
Our Dip in the Rift Valley
We never heard what my mate heard descending to the Dead Sea by bus: a jet fighter…
Three Holidays in One Afternoon
A bloody handprint on a windowpane Beneath which, blood-scrawled letters spell Beware. Across the street, a pumpkin…
