Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square One doesn’t want to make too much of a fifth anniversary, but neither is it nothing. Just surviving for five years is something. Most new journals do not manage that. First Things has not only survived but has flourished, and continues to grow in readership and by every . . . . Continue Reading »

The Public SquareThe Guardian, a British paper, has a man in Washington named Martin Walker and he reviews two books on the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill controversy. One by Senator John Danforth, Resurrection, takes Thomas’ side, and the other by Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson, Strange Justice, . . . . Continue Reading »

The Public Square Hardly had heads stopped shaking in the publishing world over the astonishing sales of the new Catechism of the Catholic Church in the United States (some three million copies in the first few months) than along comes Crossing the Threshold of Hope. Knopf put out more than eight . . . . Continue Reading »

The Public Square The cover of the New Republic picture this big thick book titled The Constitution of the United States. The real Constitution makes a very thin pamphlet, but with all that some folk have discovered in the Constitution in recent decades, maybe it looks to them like a big thick book. . . . . Continue Reading »

The Public Square Science is science and religion is religion and never the twain shall meet. It is a wondrously convenient formula for not thinking very seriously about either science or religion. We came across an article a while back in which a journalist visited with a group of Jesuit . . . . Continue Reading »

The Public Square“Tolerance is not a religious virtue,” a feisty rabbi is fond of declaring in public, gleefully scandalizing the properly liberal in his audience. Truth, not tolerance, he goes on to say, is what religion is about. None of us should want to dispute that religion, at . . . . Continue Reading »

The Public Square For most people in the West it is possibly the case that the only absolutely unambiguous icon of evil is the Third Reich and the Holocaust. One may argue that there are other instances of evil that should have that status in the popular consciousness, but they don’t. It is . . . . Continue Reading »

The Public Square La Revanche de Dieu was the French title and it caused something of a stir there. Here the book by Giles Kepel is called The Revenge of God: The Resurgence of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism in the Modern World (Pennsylvania State University Press, $35). We were struck by this . . . . Continue Reading »

The Public Square Does Job fear God for nought? That is the key to the entire story, and it is the answer that is sought through all the troubles that Satan visited upon Job. The question receives its answer as Job, having rejected the rationalizations offered by his friends, submits himself . . . . Continue Reading »

The Public Square William Pannell of Fuller Theological Seminary is part of the Christianity Today symposium. He has recently published The Coming Race Wars? (Zondervan). Although the question mark is a hedging of bets, Pannell’s message is grim. In the symposium he says, “We’re . . . . Continue Reading »