Public Life

Man, Woman, and Public Policy

Our generation's gender philosophy has harmed men, women, and their . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1991

This morning, early, I wakened to a knocking at the pane—an apple bough, fruit-laden, stirred by wind—and rose to the morning’s clear gift. Outdoors in sunlight, bending to the kind of labor that gives back more than it costs, I mowed the grass and planted . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1991

The Fencer

by Myrna Reid Grant

The appearance of perfection: Chiaroscuro come to an August day Wafted by van Rijn. Against the waving sky is the great tree Icon for what, I do not wish to know. Icon for what I do not wish to know. What I cannot defeat I will to learn to meet. Measure with level gaze . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1991

Not a Poem

by Ruth Wells

Old people can’t write poetry. Only those who think and live and feel and praise and swear and fight and love and give birth to babies can give birth to poems. Not old people. No dear old lady living in retirement with a shawl around her shoulders, living among . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1991

The Paleo's Paleo

by James Nuechterlein

Russell Kirk rejects modernity in favor of an unpalatable . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1991

Editorial: That Encyclical

by The Editors

Pope John Paul II's Centesimus annus affirms the cultural and its religious . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1991

Presbyterians for GLARF

by Phillip E. Johnson

The Presbyterian Church rejects the postmodern, relativist findings of its Task Force on Human . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1991

White Firefighters, Hank Aaron, and Affirmative Action

by Richard E. Duncan

Just when the Supreme Court is beginning to reconsider “affirmative action” plans that provide preferences on the basis of race, the Secretary of Education, Lamar Alexander, has decided, at least pending further review, to throw his weight behind “minority” scholarships that discriminatorily . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1991