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Essays

It’s the Culture, Stupid

Lyman A. Kellstedt, John C. Green, James L. Guth & Corwin E. Smidt

What really happened in the 1992 presidential election? And what does it tell us about American politics…

Two Nations, Separate and Unequal

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square William Pannell of Fuller Theological Seminary is part of the Christianity Today symposium. He…

God and Man at Yale (1880)

George M. Marsden

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, Gilbert Meilaender, Christine Whitbeck, William Smith, M. Therese Lysaught, William May, Eric Cassell

Daniel Callahan Two important social forces lie behind the potentially disastrous turn of public opinion toward euthanasia…

Abortion Facts and Feelings

Hadley Arkes

The story is told of a young student from an exotic place, a colonial dependency of Britain,…

Opinion

Groping With the Invisible Hand

George A. Tobin

While many people have expressed reservations about the direction of the Clinton economic program, the good economic…

For Luddite Humanism

David R. Carlin

Now that researchers at George Washington University Medical Center have split human embryos, thereby producing genetically identical…

Hatred Under Ice?

Peter L. Berger

There is by now a well-established conventional view about the eruptions of ethnic hatred in Eastern Europe…

Reviews

Liberalism vs. Religious Freedom

Mark C. Henrie

Religious Liberty in the Supreme Court: The Cases that Define the Debate over Church and State terry…

Learning from the Masters of Suspicion

Robert W. Jenson

Suspicion and Faith: The Religious Uses of Modern Atheism by merold westphal fordham university press, 296 pages,…

Strangers in Urban America

John J. Miller

Immigrants and the American City by thomas muller nyu press, $18.90 To talk about immigrants is to…

Take Back the Mind

Jean Bethke Elshtain

The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism by katie roiphe back bay books, 200 pages, $18.51 Katie…

Poetry

Express

Laurance Wieder

I’m here because I hatedHeedless worshipers of words but trustA truth. I’ve known the eagle’s and the…

April

Suzanne Jane

One day without warning Spring arrives, As predictable and unexpected as a death. Birdsong and the smack…

Mark’s Short Ending

Jeffrey L. Johnson

We cannot carry that angel’s stiff clarion: “Go and tell Peter!” We will go straight to the…