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Opinion

Who Needs Purgatory?

Various

I commend Jerry L. Walls for his examination of the issue of purgatory from his own Wesleyan…

Was Reinhold Niebuhr a Christian?

Gabriel Fackre

Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971), dubbed “America’s theologian” by the mid-twentieth-century media, had a host of critics during his…

Russians and Catholics

Lawrence Uzzell

To feel the full historical weight of Russian attitudes toward the Roman Catholic Church one should see…

The Last Respectable Prejudice

Kenneth L. Woodward

Does anti-Catholicism exist? Yes it does. Can we define it? Yes we can. It’s repugnance for things…

Truth, Beauty & the American Way

Alicia Mosier

Ever since the World Trade Center was destroyed, the question of what to do with the site…

Whatever Happened to Sociology?

Peter L. Berger

The title question has been asked frequently in recent years, both within and outside the field. I…

Reviews

Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Andrew J. Bacevich

From the perspective of Israel and its (few remaining) friends, the Six Day War was—and remains—both just…

Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography

Allen C. Guelzo

While describing the Rawlsian-liberal idea of “the unencumbered self” and “the procedural republic” in Democracy’s Discontents (1994),…

Briefly Noted 46

Various

Real Ethics: Rethinking the Foundations of Morality By John Rist. Cambridge University Press. 295 pp. $23 paper.…

Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnological Revolution

Marc D. Guerra

As Mustapha Mond put it in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, whether human nature is fixed or…

Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions

Edward T. Oakes

Martha C. Nussbaum is a universalist feminist, which makes her something of an anomaly in the academy…

Poetry

Poetry

Various

Drowned Lover Dearest enemy, so often unkind, my life was in your hands, until that wave of…