November 2000
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The Pope in Israel
Correspondence (November 2000) Copyright (c) 2000 First Things 107 (November 2000): 2-8. The Pope in Israel It…
Goo–Goo Time
We are in the heart of an election season, which means we are also deep in goo“goo…
For Useless Learning
In an essay written during World War II, C. S. Lewis raised the question of learning during…
The Human Genome in Human Context
On June 26, two teams of scientists announced jointly that they had virtually completed the task of…
To Say Jesus Is Lord
The Public Square Yes, much of the misunderstanding was willful. But the fact is that the media…
Cassian the Monk and John Cassian: The Conferences
The goal of life for Christians is the kingdom of God, but early in the Church’s history…
The Foundations of Christian Bioethics
In 1986 H. Tristram Engelhardt published his widely read book, The Foundations of Bioethics . A second…
The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism
The framework for this book by economic historian Robert William Fogel, 1993 Nobel Prize“winner in economics, is…
Legal Theories Nobody Believes
The Warren Court and American Politics by Lucas A. Powe, Jr. Harvard University Press. 566 pp. $35…
The Sexual Century
In The Sexual Century , Ethel Spector Person, a New York psychoanalyst associated with Columbia University, presents…
Briefly Noted 27
Johann Sebastian Bach: the Learned Musician. By Christoph Wolff. Norton. 599 pp. $39.95 . Great books do…
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life (1500 to the Present)
From Dawn to Decadence is one of those wonderful books that cannot be categorized. Some reviewers have…
Protestants and Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production
In accord with much of Scripture itself, the churches of the Reformation have emphasized the ear over…
Poetry
From fairest creatures we desire increase That being fat they may before they die Have such avoirdupois…
