September 2000
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Love and Sex
Love and Sex I am disappointed in Gilbert Meilaender’s review of Eugene Rogers’ book Sexuality and the…
Rights, Animal and Human
Last year Harvard Law School offered its first“ever course on animal rights. This is good news for…
Pius XII as Scapegoat
From the beginning of his papacy in 1939 until well after his death in 1958, Pope Pius…
Life in the Little Apple
My wife and I have a commuter marriage: she lives and works in Valparaiso, Indiana, and I…
Remembering Robert Casey
On the morning of his Commonwealth’s 1992 presidential primary, I got a telephone call from Pennsylvania Governor…
Seminary Sanity
When you start out at seminary with an eye toward entering the ministry, the first thing they…
The Church on the Rocks
The Public Square In the May issue I offered my tribute, written as he was dying, to…
Briefly Noted 25
All Things Censored by Mumia Abu-Jamal Seven Stories, 303 pp., $29.95 In one of those moments that…
Church and Israel After Christendom: The Politics of Election
Among recent Christian attempts at a theology of the election of Israel, Scott Bader-Saye’s book must be…
The New Map of the World
Modernity has attracted its fair share of critics. Recent specimens would include Alasdair MacIntyre, Leo Strauss, Eric…
Negotiating Identity: Catholic Higher Education Since 1960
Ursuline Sister Alice Gallin is Father Theodore Hesburgh’s contemporary in the world of Catholic higher education. After…
Pontius Pilate
Next to Julius Caesar, Pontius Pilate”the governor of Judea who sent Jesus to the cross”is probably the…
Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President
When Abraham Lincoln entered a nearly empty Richmond, Virginia, on April 4, 1865, black dock workers crowded…
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
In Nonzero Robert Wright argues convincingly that certain patterns in biological and cultural evolution cannot properly be…
Our ship stands off the coast
Our ship stands off the coast. From where we lie, The moss“green hills resemble what we’ve lost:…
Edward Shils in Heaven
Edward Shils in Heaven Dear Edward, sleepless, lonely, I think of you tonight In Heaven, out for…
Narrowboats
Narrowboats I love the ones most obviously lived in: bicycles and pots of lavender arrayed on a…
