April 1994
It’s the Culture, Stupid
What really happened in the 1992 presidential election? And what does it tell us about American politics…
Two Nations, Separate and Unequal
The Public Square William Pannell of Fuller Theological Seminary is part of the Christianity Today symposium. He…
God and Man at Yale (1880)
On May 27, 1880, Yale’s aging president, Noah Porter, spoke at Wellesley College on “The Christian College,”…
The Sanctity of Life Seduced: A Symposium on Medical Ethics
Daniel Callahan Two important social forces lie behind the potentially disastrous turn of public opinion toward euthanasia…
Abortion Facts and Feelings
The story is told of a young student from an exotic place, a colonial dependency of Britain,…
Groping With the Invisible Hand
While many people have expressed reservations about the direction of the Clinton economic program, the good economic…
For Luddite Humanism
Now that researchers at George Washington University Medical Center have split human embryos, thereby producing genetically identical…
Hatred Under Ice?
There is by now a well-established conventional view about the eruptions of ethnic hatred in Eastern Europe…
Liberalism vs. Religious Freedom
Religious Liberty in the Supreme Court: The Cases that Define the Debate over Church and State terry…
Learning from the Masters of Suspicion
Suspicion and Faith: The Religious Uses of Modern Atheism by merold westphal fordham university press, 296 pages,…
Strangers in Urban America
Immigrants and the American City by thomas muller nyu press, $18.90 To talk about immigrants is to…
Take Back the Mind
The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism by katie roiphe back bay books, 200 pages, $18.51 Katie…
Express
I’m here because I hatedHeedless worshipers of words but trustA truth. I’ve known the eagle’s and the…
April
One day without warning Spring arrives, As predictable and unexpected as a death. Birdsong and the smack…
Mark’s Short Ending
We cannot carry that angel’s stiff clarion: “Go and tell Peter!” We will go straight to the…