October 2002

I commend Jerry L. Walls for his examination of the issue of purgatory from his own Wesleyan…

Karl Marx—a powerful mind, a very learned man, and a good German writer—died 119 years ago. He…

In his article “God’s Justice and Ours” (FT, May), Justice Antonin Scalia states correctly, I believe, that…

I know it is a fact, but it is nonetheless hard to picture: Had he lived, Martin…

Soon after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon last September, the Economist published…

“The apt and cheerful conversation of man with woman is the chief and noblest purpose of marriage,”…

Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971), dubbed “America’s theologian” by the mid-twentieth-century media, had a host of critics during his…

To feel the full historical weight of Russian attitudes toward the Roman Catholic Church one should see…

Does anti-Catholicism exist? Yes it does. Can we define it? Yes we can. It’s repugnance for things…

Ever since the World Trade Center was destroyed, the question of what to do with the site…

The title question has been asked frequently in recent years, both within and outside the field. I…

From the perspective of Israel and its (few remaining) friends, the Six Day War was—and remains—both just…

While describing the Rawlsian-liberal idea of “the unencumbered self” and “the procedural republic” in Democracy’s Discontents (1994),…

Real Ethics: Rethinking the Foundations of Morality By John Rist. Cambridge University Press. 295 pp. $23 paper.…

As Mustapha Mond put it in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, whether human nature is fixed or…

Martha C. Nussbaum is a universalist feminist, which makes her something of an anomaly in the academy…

Drowned Lover Dearest enemy, so often unkind, my life was in your hands, until that wave of…