Public Life

The Church Militant

by William H. Willimon

War is waged within the Southern Baptist Church of the 1970s and . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1991

Home Alone: The Plight of Children

by David Popenoe

How should we counteract the negative developments in the lives of America's . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1991

Beyond Modernity

by Quentin L. Quade

The West must return to the divine order to escape . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1991

The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracyby David CannadineYale University Press, 813 pages, $39.95 As might be expected of a book whose title echoes Gibbon’s magnum opus, David Cannadine’s history of the British aristocracy since 1875 is long, exhaustive, wide-ranging, and anecdotally . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1991

Briefly Noted

by Various

A calm, comprehensive, and utterly devastating critique of evolution elevated to the level of religious faith. Johnson of the University of California, Berkeley, brings a lawyer’s keen mind to dissecting the arguments that sustain evolution as one of the more overweening orthodoxies in . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1991

The Mother of Editorials: The Times Gets Religion

by Richard John Neuhaus

Maybe we have been too hard on the editorial page of the most influential of our parish newspapers. Over the years, the New York Times’ editorial writers have been indifferent or hostile to the role of religion in our common life. Any impingement of religion on spheres that . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1991

The Economics of Human Freedom

by Pope John Paul II

I propose a “rereading” of Pope Leo’s Encyclical by issuing an invitation to “look back” at the text itself, but also to “look around” at the “new things” that surround us, very different from the “new things” at the final decade of the last . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1991

Can Atheists Be Good Citizens?

by Richard John Neuhaus

Those who were once called atheists are now the most reliable defenders not of the gods but of the good reasons for this regime of ordered liberty. Such people are the best citizens not despite but because their loyalty to the civitas is qualified by a higher loyalty. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1991