October 2002
Who Needs Purgatory?
I commend Jerry L. Walls for his examination of the issue of purgatory from his own Wesleyan…
Was Reinhold Niebuhr a Christian?
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971), dubbed “America’s theologian” by the mid-twentieth-century media, had a host of critics during his…
Russians and Catholics
To feel the full historical weight of Russian attitudes toward the Roman Catholic Church one should see…
The Last Respectable Prejudice
Does anti-Catholicism exist? Yes it does. Can we define it? Yes we can. It’s repugnance for things…
Truth, Beauty & the American Way
Ever since the World Trade Center was destroyed, the question of what to do with the site…
Whatever Happened to Sociology?
The title question has been asked frequently in recent years, both within and outside the field. I…
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
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
While describing the Rawlsian-liberal idea of “the unencumbered self” and “the procedural republic” in Democracy’s Discontents (1994),…
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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
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
Martha C. Nussbaum is a universalist feminist, which makes her something of an anomaly in the academy…
Poetry
Drowned Lover Dearest enemy, so often unkind, my life was in your hands, until that wave of…