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Opinion

Peddler of Paradise

K. Gordon Neufeld

Recently I witnessed a spectacle unlike anything I have seen in twenty years: a mass wedding celebrated…

Zelman: The Court Gets It Right

Michael M. Uhlmann

Several months on, we can begin to appreciate the full importance of the Supreme Court’s June 27,…

What Else to Expect When You’re Expecting

Agnes Howard

Last Christmas our parish hall displayed a Nativity painting by a local artist, showing a dark-haired woman…

Thirty Years of Empty Promises

Candace C. Crandall

In the long and arduous fight leading up to Roe v. Wade, the one thing feminists were…

Reviews

The Conundrum of Evil

Walter Sundberg

evil in modern thought: an alternative history of philosophy by susan neiman  princeton university press, 358 pages,…

The Perils of Partisan History

Barry Shain

Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth by Stephen F. Knott  University Press of Kansas, 336 pages,…

Briefly Noted 27

Various

intelligent design creationism and its critics: philosophical, theological, and scientific perspectives edited by robert t. pennock  mit…

Debating the Human Future

Diana Schaub

human cloning and human dignity: the report of the president’s council on bioethics with a foreward by…

In the Beginning Was the Word

Joshua Mitchell

launching liberalism: on lockean political philosophy by michael zuckert university press of kansas, 392 pages, $29.95 Paraphrasing…

Poetry

St. Peter’s Square

Tim Kelleher

The great bell tolls midnight stirring echoes: emperors, martyrs, prophets in chains. Above Rome’s Seven Hills life…