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EVICTED! The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune we can cope with. But the entropy-not to mention the lack of heat and the broken elevator-engulfing us here at 15 Dutch Street is very much...

Democracy in decline (December 1996)

DAVID R. CARLIN, JR. DEMOCRACY IN DECLINE Freedom exalted, self-rule diminished We have all heard by now that voter turnout in the 1996 presidential election was 49 percent of those...

Red Bob (September 1996)

OF SEVERAL MINDS DAVID R. CARLIN, JR. RED BOB Dole as fellow traveler The trouble with Bob Dole is that he's too much of a Marxist. I don't mean that his heart bleeds for the condition of the...

Moving up the ladder (August 1996)

DAVID R. CARLIN, JR. MOVING UP THE LADDER How equality reinforces inequality Throughout the long course of human history, systems of social inequality have run into trouble because of...

There are no single issues (May 1995)

OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. THERE ARE NO SINGLE ISSUES SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE PROLIFE About ten years ago there was a lot of talk in lib- eral Catholic circles about the dangers of...

Democracy's future (April 1995)

OF SEVERAL HINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. DEMOCRACY'S FUTURE PARTIES THAT NOBODY GOES TO Politics in America today is more paradoxical than any politics ought to be. On the one hand, the two major...

A dream deferred (January 1995)

OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. A DREAM DEFERRED MARTIN LUTHER KING'S LEGACY BETRAYED Every January we go through a ritual commemoration of the life and career of Martin Luther King, Jr.,...

Name your brand (December 1994)

6 OF SEVERAL JUMPS David R. Carlin, Jr. NAME YOUR BRAND ALL LIBERALISMS AREN'T EQUAL In the November 18, 1994, issue of Commonweal, the editorial ("Liberals & Catholics") opened with the...

Doing what comes naturally (October 1994)

OF SEVERAL HINDS David R, Carlin, Jr. DOING WHAT CONES NATURALLY A RETURN TO FOUNDATIONS One of my favorite passages in literature is the following from Cicero: "There is in fact a true...

The withering of the working class (October 1994)

THE WITHERING OF THE WORKING CLASS DAVID R. CARLIN, JR. AND WHO'S LETTING IT HAPPEN ' hat follows is an unpleasant analysis that has no happy ending I hate to write so pessimistic a piece, but...

It's the culture, stupid (September 1994)

IT'S THE CULTURE, STUPID THE IRONY OF CLINTON'S SUCCESS he irony of Bill Clinton's situation is that if he succeeds in doing the job he got elected to do, there is a real likelihood he will...

Announcing early (June 1994)

ANNOUNCING EARLY A SUGGESTION FOR BILL CLINTON he time has come for President Bill Clinton to announce that he will not run for reelection in 1996. Taking his cue from Lyndon Johnson's...

Paying for abortions (May 1994)

OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. PAYING FOR ABORTIONS PROCHOICERS JUNK PRINCIPLES he mask is off. The "prochoice" movement (with the blessing and backing of the Clinton administration)...

Where have the liberals gone? (March 1994)

OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. WHERE HAVE THE LIBERALS GONE? DEFENDING THE RIGHT TO SPEAK—SELECTIVELY In late February of this year Pope John Paul II issued a statement in which he...

Date rape fallacies (February 1994)

OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. DATE RAPE FALLACIES CAN THERE BE PURELY VOLUNTARY ACTS? Like many others, I have been puzzled by the theory and practice of date rape. When I first...

A man to remember (January 1994)

OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. A NAN TO REMEMBER MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., MORAL HERO few years back, Lynn Cheney, who was then head of the National Endowment for the Humanities...

My quest for wisdom: (December 1993)

received all sorts of orchestrated support when he was pillo- Bernardin had already said it, as the Tribune's religion writ- ried by the Sun-Tinies for alleged financial and noncelibate er,...

Single-parenthood is okay!: (October 1993)

the evidence for the roundness of the earth OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin,...

Going, going, gone (September 1993)

delegates from abroad-France, Mexico, OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. Italy, Pakistan-they struggled for the i words to tell how they felt about the pope...

They've stolen my name: (August 1993)

What is gained? Some satisfaction for some women (and probably some men) in the congregation. What is lost? The In keeping with Commonweal's usual schedule, only power of the...

O Sole Mia: (June 1993)

could contribute to further deficit reductions (the budget deficit the resourcefulness of many Italians, the ability of the coun- now exceeds 10 percent of GNP, more than three times the...

Let them eat cake (April 1993)

Now that I am with child again, I have baby with Down's syndrome. I was urged physical rootedness in these bodies, and been thinking more and more about what to have an...

Searching for the soap: (April 1993)

counselors, social workers, teachers,...

They call themselves liberals (February 1993)

Roman Catholic episcopal conferences to evaluate it. But there theologians to take into account? is little evidence in the response that the bishops' work was Finally, Francis...

From ghetto to hilltop: (February 1993)

promoting a ballot measure that would punish "aggressive pan- ed deinstitutionalization-shuttering these places, sending peo-...

Bishops & generals (January 1993)

gage more of their attention. "This is a very interesting area where I live," writes one of the alumnae reporting on her life. In my mind's eye I see her, a serene, calm, and smiling...

Sit down & shut up (August 1992)

OF SEVERAL HMDS David R. Carlin, Jr. SIT DOWN & SHUT UP THE DEMOCRATS' GAG RULE s I write this the Democratic National Convention is ending in mid-July. Bill Clinton , and Al Gore have been...

Quayle says it right (July 1992)

David R. Carlin, Jr. QUAYLE SAYS IT RIGHT BUT DOES IT WRONG wo things need to be said about Vice-president Dan ("Mr. Potatoe Head") Quayle and his crusade in favor of "family values" and...

The business of being Perot (June 1992)

OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin Jr. THE BUSINESS OF BEING PEROT THE ANTINOMIAN CANDIDATE It must be the effect of advancing age, but I seem to be getting cranky about nearly everything...

Blame the message (May 1992)

OF SEVERAL MINDS BLAME THE MESSAGE IT COMES FROM ELITISTS David R. Carlin, Jr. ill Clinton, it appears, is on his way to becoming the Democratic nominee for president, and all around the...

A choice in Rhode Island (March 1992)

OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. A CHOICE IN RHODE ISLAND CARLIN'S LIFE & HARD TIMES From time to time in this space I have made mention of my favorite vice: I have spent the last eleven...

Where's the party? (February 1992)

OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. WHERE'S THE PARTY? POLITICIANS WITHOUT POLITICS 6: 14 February 1992 Commonweal as our luck held. In other words, it worked until slavery became a burning...

'I'm not a feminist, but...' (January 1992)

OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. 'I'M NOT A FEMINIST, BUT...' GOOD POLITICS, ERSATZ RELIGION “I'm not a feminist, but ...." These words drive feminists up the wall. Understandably so....

Kissing in public (December 1991)

OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. KISSING IN PUBLIC DECORUM VS. LIBERATION k ewspaper and TV reports have told us recently that Chinese authorities are cracking down on public displays...

You ain't seen nothin' yet (November 1991)

the area as a contribution in this regard. Capuchin Father Jesus de la Torre, who toured his order's mission east of the Caroni in September, noted that "the garimpeiros thrive on the neglect of...

Bigots & bluster (October 1991)

Social philosopher Myriam Medzian, interviewed recently in Time (September 16, 1991), points out that young people in this country are surrounded by a culture of violence. "By the time American...

The new/old abortion battle (September 1991)

Supreme Court terminated the nationwide debate in the state capitols by usurping jurisdiction. And when this happens, all those Americans in the middle will no longer be able to avoid the issue....

Seizing the high ground (July 1991)

Democratic party in 1992 would normally be to put one of its own in the White House," he says, "but these are not normal times .... Let us use 1992 to articulate the cold challenges and the real...

Lighten up, guys (June 1991)

new religious studies Ph.D. may be a master of one sect or Epistle--and may or may not believe in God. There are three ways in which Catholic colleges might revitalize their Catholic...

A syllabus for progress (May 1991)

manent-press fabric. Their small, close-knit communities call barn was before me, faded like driftwood. I dismounted from to mind the Latin American communidades de base. Shaker the bike, vexed by...

Shakespeare's embrace (April 1991)

of bomb shelters, of parents comforting terrified children and perhaps elsewhere, had we done nothing at all. Any theory that trying to reassure each other. Thinking about the air assault on tries...

East meets West (March 1991)

ambiguous moral choices. What if, for example, we "won" the cold war, defeating Soviet totalitarianism and helping to liberate Eastern Europe, because of our nuclear belligerence? How does the...

World cop or world bully? (January 1991)

Son," knows when it will occur. But there are other doubts as well, doubts we are more likely to experience: doubt that God is real, for example, or that the universe has any inherent meaning at...

Traveling lite (January 1991)

OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. TRAVELING LITE THE EMPTY-BIN GENERATION s I think I have mentioned in this space before, I earn my living teaching sociology at a...

Hold that line (November 1990)

HOLD THAT LINE HUSSEIN'S TANKS, HANNIBAL'S ELEPHANTS How odd that the United States, despite having just prevailed in a Fabian struggle that lasted more than forty years, should be contemplating a...

Who's on first (July 1990)

OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlm, Jr. WHO'S ON FIRST AND WHAT'S ON DECK In the mid-1960s Charles de Gaulle, then president of France, remarked that the United States had won the cold war but...

If nothing is knowable. . . WHY BOTHER WITH EDUCATION? (January 1990)

OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. IF NOTHING IS KNOWABLE WHY BOTHER WITH EDUCATION? ave we ceased to believe in the possibility of knowledge? Is that why we can't remember when Columbus...

Don't die yet (May 1989)

OF SEVERAL HMDS David R. Carlin, Jr. DON'T DIE YET THE REVOLUTION BEHIND THE CURTAIN At the time of the French Revolution a certain very old man, when asked why he still clung to life, explained...

This, too, shall pass (January 1988)

OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. THIS, TOO, SHALL PASS THE FUTURE OF U.S.-SOVIET GOOD WILL It all depends on how you define and count these things, but according to my reckoning, the newly...

The higher law (December 1987)

OF SEVERAL HINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. THE HIGHER LAW BORK, BURKE, & MORAL RELATIVISM ime will tell, but my guess is that when the Democrats in the U.S. Senate beat Robert Bork, they...

A shortsighted vision (November 1987)

OF SEVERAL HINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. A SHORTSIGHTED VISION THE ABC'S OF SCHOOLING One of the best in the long string of recent education reform reports came out in...

A party of outsiders (October 1987)

OF SEVERAL MIND David R. Carlin, Jr. A PASTY OF ODTSIDEBS THE URGE TO VOTE -REPUBUC AN I read in the newspaper the other day that Mikhail Gorbachev, no doubt looking through aglasnost darkly,...

Cultural 'keep-away' (July 1987)

OF SEVERAL HINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. CULTURAL 'KEEP-AWAY' THE TRICKLE-DOWN THEORY OF GREAT IDEAS In the June 22 issue of The New Republic, Louis Menand, writing in the "Washington Diarist"...

Preaching & practice (June 1987)

342: OF SEVERAL HIM PS David R. Carlin, Jr. PREACHING & PRACTICE JUDGING BY STANDARDS NO LONGER PROFESSED Since I have written before in this space that one can not understand America ...

The Lincoln myth (February 1987)

OF SEVERAL HINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. THE LINCOLN MYTH BELIEVING WHAT WE WANT TO BELIEVE It is a seldom noted fact that Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born precisely the same day,...

Religious ignorance (January 1987)

OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. RELIGIOUS IGNORANCE A CLEAR & PUBLIC DANGER ¦^L I^H o one who wants to un^^^A^^H derstand American so^^^^^^^| ciety and its history can ^^H^^^J do...

Outlawing tongues (December 1986)

personal conduct." When David Prunty, a speaker at the As private speculations led to rumors and rumors to suspi- public rally, criticized the bishop, he was promptly fired from ...

Vocations to the laity (October 1986)

new, extra-religious sources of meaning. Of several minds: David R. Carlin,...

Leviathan at large: (September 1986)

in Commonweal, last June 6: plan which would have enhanced the in- Nor does the increase in lay ministers In their working lives, the laity fluence of the church...

Earning & learning (July 1986)

must be money so that you can the global economy. continue to live. You say that...

Second thoughts on Libya (June 1986)

strutted and more leisured than ever be- thoritarian clergy and a deferential laity fore, and more aware of the mission...

A second coming (May 1986)

appear self-serving, Levine invited local Catholic, Lutheran, was cut, and 1986, when not cutting AFDC became the issue and Jewish leaders to join him at each meeting. They did. for...

Thucydides, et al. (April 1986)

cusation of treachery, the denigration of an adversary's intelligence, the shouted abuse, and the shameless goading of interviewees. It began, perhaps, with the elegant sneers of a William F....

On naming the moon (March 1986)

try from receivership. In return for standby credits, the IMF imposed austerity measures on the Philippine government, limiting, for example, money supply, government spending, and budget...

Etiquette of ignorance (February 1986)

the Rio Grande Valley in 1982 to assess the refugee situation. Upon their return to Georgia, they approached a possible sponsor -- the Canadian government. In retrospect, it was an obvious...

Free-market espionage (January 1986)

the same time, congressional supporters of domestic programs found themselves joined in opposition to the bill with the biggest of the Pentagon big spenders. Nonetheless, Congress voted for this...

Stamp of approval (November 1985)

Of several minds: David R. Carlin, Jr. STAMP OF APPROVAL LEGISLATING GAY RIGHTS IN THE CORNER of the world in which I live and move and have my being, a nearby city council recently...

Hegel & pornography (November 1985)

Of several minds: David R. Carlin, Jr. HEGEL & PORNOGRAPHY THE LIMITS OF PERSONAL TASTE ONE OF MY great rules in life is that if neither Hegel nor Alexander Pope had anything to say about it,...

Choice of evils (October 1985)

Commonweal: 518 Of several minds: David R. Carlin, Jr. CHOICE OF EVILS APARTHEID OR TOTALITARIANISM? THE AMERICAN debate on South Africa, as is usual in such cases, has disclosed more about...

Negative liberty (September 1985)

Of several minds: David R. Carlin, Jr. NEGATIVE LIBERTY CHEERING FOR THE GOOD OLD CAUSE THERE IS something wonderfully quaint about the enthusiastic reaction with which many freedomloving...

The Machiavellian Will (August 1985)

Commonweal: 422 Of several minds: David R. Carlin, Jr. THE MACHIAVELLIAN WILL INCOMPATIBLE CONSERVATISMS IN A RECENT issue of The New Republic Charles Krauthammer described George Will as a...

On Mill's feast day (May 1985)

31 May 1985: 327 Of several minds: David R. Carlin, Jr. ON MILL'S FEAST DAY ST. JOHN THE LIBERAL- DESPITE HIS THEORY ACCORDING TO Gladstone, John Stuart Mill was a saint — "the saint of...

Rules for liberals (September 1984)

SEEKERS AFTER JUSTICE .9 "Ah, what a good life, and what a fine death!" wrote Angelo Roncalli at the death of his younger brother in 1957. The same must be said at the death of Msgr. Geno Baroni,...

Patchy garment (August 1984)

it is an attempt to remind those liberals or progressives who are normally on the side of the angels when it comes to issues of social justice and world peace that they are guilty of a fatal...

America's nostalgic liberalism: (February 1984)

"Mrs. Weatherby, I hope you will just talk freely about yourself and how you feel about your life in this house; and also about your neighbors and your family. First, though, I do want to assure...

The Tennyson curve (May 1983)

THE TENNYSON CURVE TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING . . . DAVID R. CARLIN, JR. POOR ARTHUR Laffer! Everyone laughs at him nowadays, as the curve of his reputation, having passed through its zenith,...

Global time limit? (September 1982)

GLOBAL TINE UNIT? JUSTICE IN AN IMPERFECT WORLD ' 'Justice is subject to dispute; might is easily recognized and is not disputed. So we cannot give might to justice, because might has gainsaid...

The safety net (May 1982)

TIE SAFETY NET SEEING BENEATH IT PRACTICED observers of politics, sensible fellows that they are, believe that if you want to understand what's really going on in the mind of a politician, pay...

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