Letter to the Editor: January-February 1993

Casting Boulders... A Dead Heat... More Technology, Not Less... Finger Food... Elshtain & Lasch... Downhill in Durham... The Papal Norm... Religion, Nationalism & Terminology...

Henry James's Literary Catholicism

THE CURIOUS CASE OF A WANNA-BE CATHOLIC

Edwin Fussell

He would make endless met­aphors by combining a Catholic element with a secular element. The result may be called, al­ternatively, a secular sacred or a sacred secu­lar.

The Liberalism of Fools

THE SARANDON SYNDROME

Mark P. Shea

Abortion and euthanasia are solidly on the side of the powerful at the expense of the power­less. Sadly, the liberal community came to rigidly em­brace it.

A Neo-Thomist's Defense of Democracy

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED #14

Glenn N. Schram

Simon says proponents of universal suffrage have histori­cally been extremely optimistic. Their optimism has taken three forms: statistical, sociological, and romantic.

A Jeffersonian Catholicism?

GUEST COLUMN

John S. McDonald

Thomas Jefferson, toward the end of his life, wrote, "I trust that there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian.

Breaking Trust With Cardinal Newman

LETTER FROM ENGLAND

John Warwick Montgomery

Catholic St. Philip's sixth form college in Birmingham, founded by Cardinal Newman, planned to turn it into a non-sectarian boy's secondary school.

To Plot or to Personalize?

Edmund B. Miller

While Operation Rescue is, ultimately, rendered in Lawl­er's work as a tactic, it is still rendered as a tactic with a high goal.

Reassessing Aquinas

Mary Beth Ingham

Why would someone at the close of the 20th century want to learn more about a thinker who died in 1274?

A New Testament for New Agers

David Hartman

Consider this rendering of John 3:16: "This is how God loved the world: God gave up an only son, so that every one who believes in him will have real life."

Briefly: January-February 1993

Reviews of The Ends of Human Life... The Fettered Presidency... Energy in the Executive...