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At the Taj Mahal In Atlantic City
As I was splitting a pair of queens to double my sawbuck bet, someone said “He’s here,”…
“Linguistic Injustice”: An Exchange
The University of Notre Dame To: My Colleagues in the Department of TheologyFrom: James F. White On…
Notes on the Culture Struggle: Dr. King in the Law Schools
The suggestion has been made on occasion in these pages that Americans are engaged in a Kulturkampf,…
Moon and Heart
Gibbous moon devoured by our shadow, …
The Educational Vise
The widely noted appearance of John Chubb and Terry Moe’s Politics, Markets & America’s Schools reminds us…
Feminism: Beyond the Second Stage
Barbara Bush finally got to speak at the Wellesley commencement last June, despite protests from 150 seniors…
Heaven Is My Home
It sometimes seems to me through the mists of memory that I spent my childhood in church.…
What Families Are For
In his engagingly titled book, What’s Wrong With the World, G. K. Chesterton argued that his fellow…
Hank Gathers and Cultural Christianity
When the Loyola Marymount basketball team, riding the crest of an emotional high after the death of…
Instaurations: The New Science of Sunsets
It is harder to see what one seesthan anyone knowsbecause it is easier, far far easierthan on…
The Orthodox Jew as Intellectual Crank
My subject is “The Orthodox Jew as Intellectual Crank,” and it would be best if I began…
Schools on Purpose
For each of the past twenty-one years the Gallup Organization has conducted a nationwide poll on attitudes…
Never the Twain
Japan: In the Land of the Brokenhearted by michael shapiro henry holt & company, 254 pages, $19.95 In…
Feminist Theodicy
Women and Evil by nell noddings university of california press, 284 pages, $25 For centuries theologians and…
Forward to the Seventies
As I write these words, it is exactly one week before my seventieth birthday”“the days of our…