Home Alone: The Plight of Children
by David PopenoeHow should we counteract the negative developments in the lives of America's . . . . Continue Reading »
Beyond Modernity
by Quentin L. QuadeThe West must return to the divine order to escape . . . . Continue Reading »
Aristocrats at Bay
by Alan JacobsThe 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 »
Briefly Noted
by VariousA 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 »
The Mother of Editorials: The Times Gets Religion
by Richard John NeuhausMaybe 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 »
The Economics of Human Freedom
by Pope John Paul III 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 »
Can Atheists Be Good Citizens?
by Richard John NeuhausThose 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 »
Capitalism: The Continuing Revolution
by Peter L. BergerDespite social fluctuation, capitalism remains vital and . . . . Continue Reading »
Man, Woman, and Public Policy
by Barbara Dafoe WhiteheadOur generation's gender philosophy has harmed men, women, and their . . . . Continue Reading »
At Home
by Eric TretheweyThis 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 »
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