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Opinion

Animal Rights

Various

David R. Carlin presents a believable argument in the first few paragraphs of “ Rights, Animal and…

Defining Social Justice

Michael Novak

Last year marked the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Hayek, among whose many contributions…

Peace When?

James Nuechterlein

It seems that Bill Clinton won’t get that Nobel Peace Prize after all. On no issue of…

Joe Lieberman as Rorschach Test

Marc Gellman

As this issue goes to press, the result of the November election is unknown. But whatever the…

Evangelicals in the Church of Mary

Daniel P. Moloney

“The Protestants were out at the pro“life ball,” my Catholic friend told me, with some agitation. “They…

Essays

What Jacques Barzun Believes, Maybe

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square I share fully the pleasure that our reviewer, John J. Reilly, takes in Jacques…

Reviews

The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

William D. Rubinstein

As I write these words, The Holocaust Industry is causing enormous debate in British intellectual circles. It…

Sing Unto the Lord

Michael Linton

Jon Vickers:A Hero’s Lifeby jeannie williamsnortheastern university press, 432 pages, $29.95 In opera, it’s good to be…

A Jewish Jesus

Kristen H. Lindbeck

Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews:Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianityby paula fredriksenknopf, 320 pages,…

The Book of Heaven: An Anthology of Writings from Ancient to Modern Times

Jeffrey Burton Russell

Heaven is not simply a theological, literary, or artistic phenomenon. It is experiential: in moments of play,…

We the People: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court

Hadley Arkes

That redoubtable crew, the writers who brought forth the symposium “ The End of Democracy? The Judicial…

Poetry

Poetry

Various

Water from you will quickly fill my deserted soul, which withers, until it meets with my eyes…