Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Getting Grover’s Goat
Herbert Grover is the increasingly visible state superintendent of public instruction for Wisconsin and a man determined…
Friendship and Its Discontents
The Norton Book of Friendship edited by Eudora Welty and Ronald A. Sharr Norton, 622 pages, $25…
Maintaining a Discreet Silence
The Idea of the University: A Reexamination by jaroslav pelikan yale university press, 238 pages, $30 The…
A New American Compact: Caring about Women, Caring for the Unborn
The following statement appeared as a full-page advertisement in the New York Times during the Democratic Convention…
Tradition and Creativity in Theology
The ideas of “tradition” and “creativity” seem at first glance to be opposed and incompatible. Tradition says…
On Marrying, Again
Several years ago I wrote an essay on marriage, an essay filled with conviction and certainty. I…
The Priests of Culture
The New Testament’s epistle to the Hebrews was written to Jewish converts in the early Church who…
The Unfathomable Mystery of Autism
There’s a Boy In Here: A Mother and Her Son Tell the Story of His Emergence from…
The Cultural Middle Ground
The Making Of Middlebrow Culture by joan shelley rubin university of north carolina press, 416 pages, $34.95…
Getting Rid of the Vegetables
The other day, I cleaned out the vegetable bin in my refrigerator. Some leaves of the head…
Better Than Their Fathers
My fourteen-year-old son has decided he is of the wrong race, culturally at any rate. He wants…
To Students of Divinity: A Convocation Address
People who talk overmuch about beginning a new phase of life often appear quite foolish. After all,…
Christ, Culture & the New Europe
The Synod of European bishops that took place in Rome last year engaged a wide range of…
The Blackboard Bungle
Ed School Follies: The Miseducation Of America’s Teachers by rita kramer free press, 228 pages, $22.95 In…
The 1960s Revisited
The Death Of An American Jewish Community: A Tragedy Of Good Intentions by hillel levine and lawrence…