October 2001

I was surprised to find in James Nuechterlein’s “ Pride and Patriotism ” (May) a chain of…

Public Square The idea of “Christian America” meets with determined opposition on many fronts, and for many…

G. K. Chesterton’s famous description of the United States as “a nation with the soul of a…

In last fall’s presidential election pro-life voters were faced with a difficult moral choice emblematic of the…

Fighting, killing, making war. Human beings have been doing it almost from the very beginning and show…

We live in what we like to think of as a very sophisticated society. International commerce keeps…

“Read not the times, read the eternities,” said Henry David Thoreau. It isn’t often that the two…

Among the many (of course) excellent items in this issue, there is Ralph Wood’s thoughtful and intelligent…

There is one remaining institution of the old Tsarist empire of the Romanovs: the Patriarchate of Moscow.…

Plato was no friend of safe sex, and latex would not have changed his mind. In his…

Good News v. Milford is very good news indeed for advocates of school vouchers and faith-based organizations…

All Shook Up: Music, Passion, and Politics by carson holloway spence publishing company, 232 pages, $75.81 Are…

Pluralism in Philosophy: Changing the Subject by john kekes cornell university press, 240 pages, $76.95 John Kekes…

The Trinity in German Thought by samuel m. powell cambridge university press, 290 pages, $53 In writing…

The Influence of Faith: Religious Groups and U.S. Foreign Policy edited by elliott abrams rowman & littlefield,…

The Book of Marriage:The Wisest Answers to the Toughest Questions by dana mack and david blankenhorn eerdmans,…

American Evangelical Christianity: An Introduction by mark a. noll blackwell, 332 pages, $32.13 With the death of…

To age is but to respect gravity, movement that is denial given up in the fashion of…

To age is but to respect gravity, movement that is denial given up in the fashion of…