Ernest W. Lefever

In Spite of the Godsby Edward Luce, Doubleday, $26.00, 400 pages. Ever since Queen Victoria presided over the British raj…

Because of and in spite of Hollywood films like The African Queen and television shows like Tarzan, tropical Africa south of…

When it seemed it could get no worse, President Robert Mugabe again tightened his grip on Zimbabwe. Earlier he had…

In sub-saharan Africa an estimated 30 million people have the HIV-AIDS virus. Some 17 million have died so far, and…

My first visit to Washington, D.C. was as a child in the early 1930s. Holding my father’s hand, I vividly recall…

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for GodBy Carl Sagan, Penguin Press, $27.95, 284 pages….

Time magazine’s April 20, 1962, cover story on Karl Barth announced that the great Swiss theologian would visit the United…

A few years ago Al Gore, then dressed in his natural-hued attire, would have been out of place among the Hollywood elite,…

Is there a chink in the armor of absolute opposition to capital punishment in America? In the wake of Saddam Hussein’s…

A few days ago, the editors of the Bulletin of American Scientists struck again. With pomp and circumstance, they moved…

Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War By Robert L. Beisner Oxford University Press, $35, 800 pagesSurely Robert L….

Last month on the 43rd anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, I had hoped that public reflections on that tragic event would…