May 1998
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And Now for Something Not Very Different: Real Virtuality
The Public Square It comes in three fat volumes published by Blackwell, The Rise of the Network…
The Cuban Revolutions
Cuba is notably short on snow, and Fidel Castro is hardly a ruler in the mold of…
Mr. Emerson’s Tombstone
Few small American towns exude a more winning charm than Concord, Massachusetts. Much of its charm flows…
Playing Defense in Colorado
The long-standing debate about the legitimacy of the Supreme Court’s constitutional rulings has recently been renewed with…
The Catholic Church and the Holocaust
On March 16, 1998, the Holy See released a long-awaited statement on the Church and the Holocaust,…
Alabama Standing in the Need of Prayer
The controversy over the injunction issued in October 1997 by Alabama Federal District Judge Ira M. DeMent…
Babel Undone
A few decades ago I published a short piece in Christianity Today about something I had observed on a…
Gays Marrying
There are moments when a person says something that should have been obvious but which has been…
Revolutionary of the Heart
Since John Cardinal O’Connor’s announcement at his Sunday Mass on November 9, 1997 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral…
The Lure of Social Democracy
Modern American liberalism rests, at heart, on faith in the power of the federal government to solve…
Go Ahead, Offend Me
Last spring saw a free-for-all break out in the evangelical Protestant camp over a proposed new “inclusive…
God’s Work
Opus Dei: Leadership and Vision in Today’s Catholic Church By Vittorio Messori Regnery. 201 pp. $27.50 Beyond…
Patterns of Unorthodoxy
American Originals By Paul K. Conkin University of North Carolina Press. 336 pp. $18.95 In a sermon…
Debating the Founding
The Natural Rights Republic By Michael Zuckert University of Notre Dame Press 304 pp. $34.95 In The…
Briefly Noted 146
The Girard Reader. Edited by James G. Williams Crossroad/Herder. 310 pages, $39.95 cloth, $19.95 paper It is…
Prophet of Nihilism
Resurrection from the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky by rené girard. translated by james g. williams. crossroad, 167 pp, $24.95…
Inheritance
Those with heaps of money, made Or born to it, though they play With bankers, senators, with…
Come
Listen, reader of the dreams Interpreted by Joseph, who led Israel into Egypt, brought them Up again:…
Willing
God once smiled on Israel, Returned them from captivity, Forgotten and forgiven. Now think of us, let…
