October 1997
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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The Approaching Century of Religion
The Public Square The Approaching Century of Religion Shortly before he died on November 23, 1976, André…
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
The writers and filmmakers of science fiction have been bold in depicting what life will be like…
Melville in Manhattan
It should have been easy for Herman Melville to hate Manhattan—the “Babylonish brick-kilns of New York,” as…
We Hold These Truths
Following upon the intense public discussion occasioned by our November 1996 symposium on judicial usurpation, Charles Colson…
The Supreme Court 1997
To help the reader understand the background of the following commentaries, we asked Robert P. George of…
“Catholic Gobbledygook”
For the New York Times and most other mainstream media it has become axiomatic: De Catholicis, nil…
Economics as Humanism
For more than a century now economics has been advanced and practiced as a science, on the…
Remembering the Riots
Of the various disasters that littered the 1960s, none was more deleterious in its effects than the…
Democracy’s Private Places
For centuries the public square and the street have been the spatial media of public culture. But…
Briefly Noted 139
The Cambridge Companion to the Bible by Howard Clark Kee, Eric M. Meyers, John Rogerson, and Anthony…
Every Sparrow that Falls
Rain Without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement by Gary L. Francione Temple University Press,…
Kitchen Table Talk
The Assault on Parenthood: How Our Culture Undermines the Family by Dana Mack Simon & Schuster, 368…
I Know Not the Secret
I call, but my finest thoughts come not out of their sanctum. Yet when I am silent,…
Weather Forecast: Prolonged Dry Period
The cattle who should, according to folklore, be lying down at the approach of rain, stand skeptical…
If God Is My Elm’s Great Roots
If God is my elm’s great roots burrowing deep for water but, as branches seek sun, might…
Sursum Corda
For years and years, during the dark days of war and famine, the faithful among us prayed…
Critics Under Statues
Beneath statues of Civil War heros On bronze horses, Green with age And victory, sits The ragged…
The Bible Tells Me So
People of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture by David Lyle Jeffrey Eerdmans, 396 pages, $37…
