Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square (Wherein the author discerns improbable connections between two archbishops at Oxford, centuries apart, one from Canterbury, the other from San Francisco; exposes the noxious influence of nominalism; excoriates the curial mindset and sundry ecclesiological follies; flays . . . . Continue Reading »

The Public Square I am impressed by how often it happens; when I lecture on religion in American life someone will urgently point out during the Q & A that our society is now religiously “pluralistic” and it is therefore misleading to speak of religion in mainly Christian and Jewish terms. Then . . . . Continue Reading »

Active Faith: How Christians Are Changing the Soul of American Politics Free Press, 312 pages, $25 Ralph Reed is frequently depicted as the innocent, and therefore deceptive, face of the religious right. Political opponents who are convinced that the Christian Coalition and its allies represent an . . . . Continue Reading »

The Public Square Egalitarian protestations to the contrary notwithstanding, every functional society has a class composed of those who wield concentrated political and economic power and who set its manners, or lack thereof. Within that class, different people do different things, and the most . . . . Continue Reading »

Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by daniel jonah goldhagenknopf, 622 pages, $30 It must be a heady experience. The son of a distinguished Holocaust scholar at Harvard turns his doctoral dissertation, which won the 1994 award of the American Political Science . . . . Continue Reading »

The Public Square Among the most powerful social and political forces of our time is the “pro-family” movement. Pressed by organizations such as Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council, as well as by the emphatic teaching of the Catholic Church, millions of Americans have . . . . Continue Reading »

The Public SquareAn election year does strange things to people. For instance, Father John Kavanaugh’s helpful homiletical reflections in America are usually about the scriptural text for the Sunday. But he, too, succumbs to the quadrennial political itches when confronted by the Sermon on . . . . Continue Reading »

The Public Square Ticking Crime Bomb” is a troubling article in the Weekly Standard by hard-nosed Princeton criminologist John J. DiIulio. While crime statistics have dipped recently, demographic and other forces are building for a big explosion in the near future. What to do? The best single . . . . Continue Reading »

The Public Square We did it in 1992, and now we’ve gone and done it again. After five full years of publication, we thought it time to survey our subscribers once more. We thank all of you who received the detailed questionnaire and took the time to answer our questions. Of course such a . . . . Continue Reading »

The Public Square Last fall the nation was seized by a spasm of race-related excitements. Not really, of course. Most people were going about their daily business. But the media had elected race as the crisis of the season, and the chattering classes couldn’t get enough of it. (But then, where . . . . Continue Reading »