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Participants: William J. Bennett, Midge Decter, James C. Dobson, Mary Ann Glendon, John Leo William J. Bennett When I read statements asking us to explore the question of “whether we have reached or are reaching the point where conscientious citizens can no longer give moral assent to the . . . . Continue Reading »

Pythagoras’ Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender Wars By Margaret Wertheim Random House, 279 pages, $23 Contrary to what the subtitle night suggest, this book is no feminist screed, but an even-toned, readable, and philosophically astute claim that mathematics (and hence mathematical . . . . Continue Reading »

Creative Contradictions Richard John Neuhaus’ analysis of Ralph Reed’s Active Faith (“Ralph Reed’s Real Agenda,” October) is trenchant, as always. One question, though: is it only “contemporary liberals” who define democracy “in terms of upward mobility rather than . . . . Continue Reading »

God of Abraham By L. E. Goodman Oxford University Press, 384 pages, $49.95 A sustained argument for natural theology by a first-rate philosopher who also knows the Jewish tradition. Goodman argues that human reason, unaided by special revelation, can teach us much about God”including a basic . . . . Continue Reading »

Debating the Shoah In his review essay on Hitler’s Willing Executioners (“Daniel Goldhagen’s Holocaust,” August/September), Richard John Neuhaus harshly challenges Professor Goldhagen’s criticism of the role played by the Christian churches under the Nazi regime, . . . . Continue Reading »

IntroductionArticles on “judicial arrogance” and the “judicial usurpation of power” are not new. The following symposium addresses those questions, often in fresh ways, but also moves beyond them. The symposium is, in part, an extension of the argument set forth in our May 1996 editorial, . . . . Continue Reading »

The Fragility of Freedom: Tocqueville on Religion, Democracy, and the American Future By Joshua Mitchell University of Chicago Press. 264 pages, $34.95. It is Tocqueville’s hour”again. Recently, the editor of a leading journal of opinion quipped that his magazine would soon be known as . . . . Continue Reading »

The Judicial Culture of Death Michael Uhlmann’s “The Legal Logic of Euthanasia” (June/July) is an outstanding essay on the two recent assisted-suicide decisions from the federal judiciary. I write with a few comments. The Second Circuit in Quill v. Vacco employed equal-protection . . . . Continue Reading »

Church Teaching Authority: Historical and Theological Studies By John P. Boyle University of Notre Dame Press, 241 pages, $38.95 In eight scholarly essays, framed by an introduction and a conclusion, Father Boyle examines aspects of the Church’s teaching office. The first chapter deals with . . . . Continue Reading »

Who Is Behind Physician-Assisted Suicide? Along with the editors of First Things , I deplore the decision of the Ninth Circuit Court (“The Ninth Circuit’s Fatal Overreach,” May) in its ruling that the Constitution grants a “liberty right” to physician-assisted suicide . . . . Continue Reading »