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Opinion

Are Women Inferior?

Various

Copyright (c) 2000 First Things 102 (April 2000): 2-8. Are Women Inferior? It appears that Marie I.…

Forgiveness & the Death Penalty

James Nuechterlein

On February 24, the State of Texas executed Betty Lou Beets, age sixty-two, for the murder of…

My History and America’s

Wilfred M. McClay

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), in partnership with the White House Millennium Council, announced in…

Believing in the Word

Dian Saderup Monson

The recent death of Catholic author Andre Dubus represents a loss to anyone interested in the fate…

Lincoln, Nietzsche, and the Constitution

Hadley Arkes

There was some puzzlement among John Stuart Mill’s contemporaries that he should publish his tract On Liberty,…

Remembering the Rescuers

Patrick Henry

In a no“holds“barred article, “Auschwitz and the Professors,” published in the June 1998 issue of Commentary ,…

Reviews

Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment: Essential Rights and Liberties

Steven D. Smith

John Witte’s book on religious freedom is a work of impressive erudition and formidable complacency. Witte capably…

Briefly Noted 22

Various

James Joyce. By Edna O’Brien. Viking/Penguin. 179 pp. $19.95 This entry in the Penguin Lives series of…

A History of the Popes, 1830–1914

Russell Hittinger

A century ago Leo XIII welcomed pilgrims to Rome for the Holy Year of 1900. While expressing…

Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus

Francis Martin

This is the third volume in a projected seven“volume series entitled The Hinges of History, in which…

The Trouble With Principle

Peter J. Leithart

“For all the radical talk,” Stanley Fish concludes in a summary of the political theory of William…

Poetry

Poetry

Various

Copyright (c) 2000 First Things 102 (April 2000): 10, 23, 38, 43, 49. Chowkiakow: The River (September…