April 2000
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Are Women Inferior?
Copyright (c) 2000 First Things 102 (April 2000): 2-8. Are Women Inferior? It appears that Marie I.…
How We Got Here
So David Frum sends me his new book, with the inscription, “Hope you like this one better…
What Sex Is–And Is For
Sexuality and the Christian Body By Eugene F. Rogers, Jr. Blackwell. 303 pp. $62.95. The blurbs on…
A Conversion Story
An adult conversion to Catholicism—or indeed to any form of orthodox Christianity—is not an everyday occurrence in…
DNA and Other Designs
For two millennia, the design argument provided an intellectual foundation for much of Western thought. From classical…
Can Philosophy Be Christian?
The possibility of a Christian philosophy was fiercely debated in the late 1920s and the early 1930s,…
George Eliot: Good Without God
George Eliot: The Last Victorian by kathryn hughes farrar, straus & giroux. 400 pp. $30 On the…
Forgiveness & the Death Penalty
On February 24, the State of Texas executed Betty Lou Beets, age sixty-two, for the murder of…
My History and America’s
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), in partnership with the White House Millennium Council, announced in…
Believing in the Word
The recent death of Catholic author Andre Dubus represents a loss to anyone interested in the fate…
Lincoln, Nietzsche, and the Constitution
There was some puzzlement among John Stuart Mill’s contemporaries that he should publish his tract On Liberty,…
Remembering the Rescuers
In a no“holds“barred article, “Auschwitz and the Professors,” published in the June 1998 issue of Commentary ,…
Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment: Essential Rights and Liberties
John Witte’s book on religious freedom is a work of impressive erudition and formidable complacency. Witte capably…
Briefly Noted — 04/00
James Joyce by edna o’brien viking/penguin. 179 pp. $19.95 This entry in the Penguin Lives series of…
A History of the Popes, 1830–1914
A century ago Leo XIII welcomed pilgrims to Rome for the Holy Year of 1900. While expressing…
Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus
This is the third volume in a projected seven“volume series entitled The Hinges of History, in which…
The Trouble With Principle
“For all the radical talk,” Stanley Fish concludes in a summary of the political theory of William…
