March 2003
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Apocalyptic Fever
I read with considerable interest Carl E. Olson’s essay on the apocalyptic fever of Tim LaHaye’s vast…
Sexual and Related Disorders
“Years ago,” writes John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, “an old friend, now deceased, was…
Dostoevsky and the Fiery Word
When I was young and under the compulsion to affect a deeper experience of life than I…
Tradition, History, and Sequoias
It is my impression that many of the finest and most stimulating historians of the present generation…
The Tribunal of Mercy
It is surprising, given the events of the last year, to imagine that some members of the…
The Communion of Saints
This statement on the communion of saints (communio sanctorum) is part of the ongoing project known as…
Retelling the Story of Science
We often hear of a conflict between religion and science. Is there one? Certainly, some religious beliefs…
San Francisco Sacred (II)
Several times during the San Francisco Opera’s (SFO) remarkable production of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking (which…
Letter from Germany
There is no denying that German“U.S. relations were ruffled, if not rocked, by last September’s election. During…
Remembering Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich died in Bremen on December 2, 2002 at the age of seventy-six. As a German…
Heaven: The Logic of Eternal Joy
In my early days of teaching introductory philosophy courses, I always lectured on Socrates’ understanding of the…
The West and the Rest:Globalization and the Terrorist Threat
In the terrorist age we have now entered, the nations of the West are confronted, for the…
Flannery O’Connor: A Life
Flannery O’Connor: A Life by jean w. cash university of tennessee press, 392 pages, $30 Writing of…
Briefly Noted 29
Religious Liberty in America: Political Safeguards. By Louis Fisher. University Press of Kansas. 266 pp. $16.95 paper.…
Reluctant Saint
No saint has been the subject of more hagiography than Francis of Assisi, and no founder has…
American Empire
Andrew Bacevich’s American Empire has to rank at or near the top of nominees for Most Frustrating…
Poetry(March 2003)
Imagine the way those horses came plunging and foaming like a race undammed, and how the hot…
