Publications

I love hymns. I love singing them and I love listening to them. Hearing the robust Cardiff Festival Choir belt…

From science fiction to the halls of Congress, the promise and perils of nanotechnology have become big news. But just…

The New Atlantis, Number 2, Summer 2003 OF EMBRYOS AND EMPIRE by Eric Cohen There is something profoundly strange about…

At a recent conference on Islam and democracy, I was privileged to meet several of the brightest Muslim scholars in…

During his current trip to sub-Saharan Africa, which wisely does not include Liberia, President Bush is pondering whether to send…

The essays in this volume look at the role of evangelicals in American civic life. The contributors examine evangelical Christians’ beliefs and activities on topics ranging from bioethics to race relations and welfare reform to international human rights. Taken together, the essays show that the social commitment of evangelicals extends considerably beyond family-related issues, and that their activity in the public sphere makes an essential contribution to the public good.

There is something profoundly strange about the world’s only superpower, at such a time of global reckoning, concerning itself with…

Ten years ago, they said it couldn’t be done: “they” being the U.S. Catholic establishment, “it” being the celebration of…

When Dr. Johnson famously suggested that patriotism was the last refuge of scoundrels, he wasn’t demeaning patriotism. Rather, he was…

This past April 25th marked the fiftieth anniversary of the most important scientific article of the twentieth century: James Watson…

Nothing more graphically illustrates the cultural gap between the United States and western Europe than the recent flap over President’s…

Here’s a tale of two translations that doesn’t involve the liturgical tong wars. Permit me a brief but crucial Latin…