Letter to the Editor: June 1989

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Why Socialists Should Drop Marx

DEMYTHOLOGIZING A GIANT

John C. Cort

Marx should neither remain a dominant theorist of the worldwide democratic socialist movement, nor the source of ideas, strategy, or analysis.

The Key Issue in the Middle East Conflict

DRAWING THE DIVIDING LINE — SOMEWHERE WEST OF THE JORDAN RIVER

Landrum R. Bolling

The Israeli/Palestinian conflict features sharply differing perceptions of the issues and seemingly irreconcilable “solutions” to an unresolvable struggle.

Newman's Prophetic Challenge to Clericalism

ACTIVATING THE LAITY

Anthony Anderson

Newman challenged laymen to sanctify the world and the Church; he challenged clergy to co-operate with and utilize lay energy and wisdom.

The Continuing Irony of American History

A NIEBUHRIAN VIEW OF CARTER, REAGAN & THE NEW INTERNATIONAL SITUATION

Charles L. Garrettson III

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.

Ripeness Is All

GUEST COLUMN

Will Hoyt

The novelist calls characters into being and prods them forth toward a closure which, once reached, turns all that came before radiant with meaning.

The So-Called Underclass, Part I

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

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?

Opening New Windows on God's Love

Elaine Hallett

Review of Knowing the Truth of God's Love: The One Thing We Can't Live Without

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