April 2001
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How Successful is Sociobiology?
Tom Bethell (“ Against Sociobiology,” January ) is to be commended for pointing out the fatal flaw…
Edward T. Oakes and His Critics: An Exchange
I am glad that First Things asked Edward T. Oakes to review my book The Wedge of…
Critical Thinking Prohibited
Federal courts in Louisiana recently reached the conclusion that too much thinking about the difficult issues involved…
Managed by Care
The year was 1962. My sister was eagerly preparing for the brave new world of junior high.…
Conflicts Foreign and Domestic
Among my earliest political memories are the debates I had as a young teenager with my father…
The First Freedom Under Siege
Worldwide, religious freedom is deteriorating. A world is a difficult thing to summarize, but the trend shows…
A Candid Word About An Untold Story
A hundred and seventy one thousand is a lot of people. That is how many adults came…
Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy
The story of Occupied Rome has never dovetailed well with the portrait of Pius XII as indifferent…
Calvin: A Biography
Bernard Cottret’s Calvin: A Biography is the fifth in a spate of English“language biographies of the Geneva…
The Waning of the Renaissance, ca. 1550–1640
In the usual historiography, the development of the West, like Caesar’s Gaul, is divided into three parts.…
The Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century
In the best that has been thought and said about the twentieth century, its Christian martyrs have…
Briefly Noted
On Karol Wojtyla . By Peter Simpson. Wadsworth. 92 pp. $13.95 paper. This short book provides an…
By Nature Equal
By Nature Equal is a bold and original book. Both authors are law professors”Coons at Boalt Hall…
Poetry
Ingathering my frail smocked son he says: don’t squeeze. Absolution by poison has made him into papier…
