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Opinion

June/July Letters

Various

The Science of the Mind It was good to read Paul C. Vitz’s article about “psychology in…

A Jewish-Catholic Bioethics?

Eric Cohen

The term “Judeo-Christian” has entered our civic vocabulary for good reason. On many of the deepest issues…

An Unworkable Theology

Philip Turner

It is increasingly difficult to escape the fact that mainline Protestantism is in a state of disintegration.…

A Label that Sticks

Paul Scalia

When I was in high school, the students fell into many different groups: preps, jocks, cheerleaders, punks,…

Reviews

Sex or Gender?

Sara Butler

Taking Sex Differences Seriously by Steven E. Rhoads Encounter. 362 pp. $17.95 When Steven Rhoads published Taking…

Why We Work

Gilbert Meilaender

Just Work by Russell Muirhead Harvard University Press, 224 pp. $24.95 That work is essential to human…

Briefly Noted 11

Various

Consumer’s Guide to a Brave New World. By Wesley J. Smith. Encounter. 219 pp. $25.95. The Brave…

Unreasonable Observers

Russell Hittinger

The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life by James Hitchcock Princeton University Press Vol. I: The…

Offer Declined

Paul J. Griffiths

The Future of Religion by Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo Columbia University Press, 112 pp. $24.50 The…

Kierkegaard’s Voices

Gregory R. Beabout

Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography by joakim garff translated by bruce h. kirmmse princeton university press, 867 pages,…

Poetry

Parable of the Birds

Robert B. Shaw

They might be swallows. Barely to be seen, they come through what the combine left behind, dispersed,…