For what seemed like a generation, the late Carl Sagan was the voice of science on public television. With an exuberant confidence in the empirical method, he showed viewers of the edifying PBS (...)
When my mother, Patricia McGowan, died in late June, we chose the cheapest coffin for her burial. The funeral director brought the glossy album of possibilities for us to leaf through and without (...)
T he figurative "exile" of religious believers-their status as unsettled pilgrims in a hostile world-was a literal condition for many Catholics in nineteenth-century Protestant (...)
Thirty-five years after Roe v. Wade, many Catholics wonder why the country still does not protect the life of every unborn person. The case against abortion seems compelling, so why does it often (...)
In his brief introduction to this valuable and entertaining primer, James Wood proposes to explore the following central questions about the art of fiction: "Is realism real? How do we (...)
Today's young adults may be a mystery to many religious leaders, but one thing about them is clear: Compared with young adults of the preceding generation, fewer go to church. Thirty-one percent (...)
The McCain-Palin campaign says it's for change, and it certainly delivered change with its abrupt abandonment of the long-standing conservative view of teen pregnancy. For decades, religious (...)
HOW PROLIFE IS McCAIN?In his letter to the editor ("Voting Against Obama," September 12), David R. Carlin writes as if the current presidential election were a referendum on the (...)
Marketing has become the lifeblood of American culture-witness this election season's theatrics, from photo-ops at Middle American diners, to balloon-saturated and laser-laced conventions, to the (...)
The main character in Nixonland is not Nixon. Its protagonist, in fact, has no name-but lives on every page. It is the voter who, in 1964, pulled the lever for the Democrat for president because (...)
