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Essays

Recruiting for the Revolution

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square The Nation is ecstatic. Its cover story “The Gay Moment” evinces high confidence that…

When the Court Should Not Be Obeyed

Russell Hittinger

I At the end of its 1992 term, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Planned…

Evangelizing Liberalism

M. B. Handspicker

In the March issue of First Things , Benton Johnson, Dean R. Hoge, and Donald A. Luidens…

King Lear Beyond Reason: Love and Justice in the Family

Mark R. Schwehn

The practice of combining love and justice in the governance of relationships between parents and children is…

Evangelical Theology in Crisis

Edward T. Oakes

No Place for Truth: Or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology by david f. wells eerdmans, 318 pages,…

Opinion

Crime and the Cure of the Soul

Charles W. Colson

Those of us who believe that our social and political order rests on moral foundations applaud William…

The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Corrected

Paul V. Mankowski

(chanted to no tune in particular) BEFORE: by Julia Ward Howe Mine eyes have seen the glory…

Reviews

After Hell

Amity Shlaes

Against All Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America by william b. helmreich…

Democracy’s Discontents

John P. Sisk

Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America by robert hughes oxford university press, 210 pages, $19.95 This…

Syllabus Errorum

George Weigel

God’s Politician: Pope John Paul II, the Catholic Church, and the New World Order by david willey…

Poetry

Tiresias

Travis DuPriest

I have walked now for days on end with my eyes closed, thoughts centered at the point…

Bat

Robert Siegel

I hang upsidedown from the roof of your skull sleeping—my wings crossed over me like Pharaoh’s arms,…

Messianic Secret

Elizabeth Creamer

At a parish council meeting, some women clustering together decide, whispering so as not to be overheard…

In a Dark Country Night

Katherine Soniat

I see one bumblebee heading over the fence and into the doorway of this shrunken Old Field’s…