Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
I Heart New York
When the Editor-in-Chief of this journal invited me to come East to work with him and his…
A Dutch Master and the Good Life
What follows is prompted not by a cigar, but rather a painting by the Dutch (strictly speaking,…
The Capital of Ambivalence
Modernity and Crises of Identity: Culture and Society in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna by jacques le rider translated by…
Educating Father Abraham: The Meaning of Fatherhood
My theme is the education of the patriarch Abraham, Father of Judaism, father of Christianity, father of…
The Family and the Constitution
The family occupies a precarious position in the liberal democracies of today. It still exists; it sometime…
It’s the Culture, Stupid
What really happened in the 1992 presidential election? And what does it tell us about American politics…
Liberalism vs. Religious Freedom
Religious Liberty in the Supreme Court: The Cases that Define the Debate over Church and State terry…
Abortion Facts and Feelings
The story is told of a young student from an exotic place, a colonial dependency of Britain,…
A New Heaven and a New Earth
“RE-imagining,” a conference “by women for women and men,” marked the midpoint of the World Council of…
Rites of Spring
Office of Wellness California State University at Poco To: The Poco Community From: Chelsea Rabinowitz-Hakamoto, Wellness Coordinator…
The Limits of Reconstruction
Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century: A Biography of Mordecai M. Kaplan by mel scult wayne state university…
The Fifties Without Soul
This is not a book review, it’s a complaint. I have been reading—and, I confess, enormously enjoying—David…
Evil: Back in Bad Company
Most Christian thinkers have viewed evil as a privation, a derivative reality, like a shadow. Shadows are…
Legal Ethics—Worlds in Collision
Chicago’s financial district and the seat of its city government are only a few blocks apart, yet…
Christian Conviction & Democratic Etiquette
According to a bit of street wisdom that has worked its way into the national vocabulary, “You…
