1989 June
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Why Socialists Should Drop Marx
Marx should neither remain a dominant theorist of the worldwide democratic socialist movement, nor the source of ideas, strategy, or analysis.
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The Key Issue in the Middle East Conflict
The Israeli/Palestinian conflict features sharply differing perceptions of the issues and seemingly irreconcilable “solutions” to an unresolvable struggle.
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Newman's Prophetic Challenge to Clericalism
Newman challenged laymen to sanctify the world and the Church; he challenged clergy to co-operate with and utilize lay energy and wisdom.
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The Continuing Irony of American History
Our past is neither as virtuous as our optimists think nor as vicious as our pessimists think. It consists, rather, of a mixture of comic and tragic elements.
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Ripeness Is All
The novelist calls characters into being and prods them forth toward a closure which, once reached, turns all that came before radiant with meaning.
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The So-Called Underclass, Part I
Why don’t the “underclass” want to leave it? Is there, perhaps, some failure not of psychology or school experience but of the moral imagination?
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Opening New Windows on God's Love
Review of Knowing the Truth of God's Love: The One Thing We Can't Live Without
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Briefly: June 1989
Review of The Catholic Milieu... The Jesuit Mind: The Mentality of an Elite in Early Modern France... The Catholic Novel: An Annotated Bibliography... The Literary Guide to the Bible... Art and Prudence: Studies in The Thought of Jacques Maritain... The Great Heresies... and more
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