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Jean Bethke Elshtain The Decline of Fraternity Redeeming Democracy in America Wilson Carey McWilliams University of Kansas Press, $34.95, 336 pp. “Character is a f ine autumnal word, with...

A just war Jimmy Carter got it wrong (April 2003)

Jean Bethke Elshtain A JUST WAR Force was justified & restrained Hven as the debate raged about whether or not the war against the Iraqi regime met the criteria of a "just cause"-I believe it...

Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy (February 2002)

BOOKS Jane Addams revised Jane Addams and the Dreams of American Democracy Jean Bethke Elshtain Basic Books, $28, 328pp. John T. McGreevy She wore a full-length black dress almost every day of...

The Future of the Disabled in Liberal Society (September 2001)

WHAT COURTS AS A PERSON? The Future of the Disabled in Liberal Society An Ethical Analysis Hans S. Reinders University of Notre Dame Press, $17, 296 pp. Jean Bethke Elshtain This book is a...

The Warrior's Honor (October 1998)

Solomon, Beloved, and now Paradise. Her books resonate with her passion and commitment to racial dignity and equality, but also with her immersion in a fictional world unlike any other. She...

What It Neans to Be a Libertarian by Charles Murray (May 1997)

PASS THE TORTS What It Means to Be a Libertarian Charles Murray Broadway Books, $20, 178pp. Jean Bethke Elshtain In this breezy, engaging manifesto, Charles Murray reveals himself to be a...

All God'S Children by Fox Butterfield (April 1996)

DELIVER US FROM EVIL All God's Children The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence Fox Butterfietd Alfred A. Knopf, $27.50,389 pp. Jean Bcthhc Elshtain Willie Bosket, the...

John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism, by Alan Ryan: (August 1995)

LIBERALISM'S PHILOSOPHER JOHN DEWEY AND THE HIGH TIDE OF AMERICAN LIBERALISM Alan Ryan W. W. Norton, $30,448 pp. Jean Belhke Elshlain Political philosopher Alan Ryan has written a brisk,...

Democracy on trial (February 1995)

BOOKS Democracy's weak pulse "The aim of this book is to reach dis- agreement." With this bold gambit Jean Bethke Elshtain opens Democracy on Trial, a collection of five lectures in which she...

The Anatomy of Antiliberalism: (November 1993)

thinkers Holmes goes...

The Politics of Virtue: (September 1993)

Many of the strengths of The Politics one see why Dworkin's position (albeit uncover the origins of that reassuring of Virtue are missing from the Dworkin with his own...

Against gay marriage-II (November 1991)

Is the meaning of marriage (as religious sacrament) consonant with the meaning of homosexuality? The latter meaning may be even less recoverable than the former. To the extent that superficial...

In Good Conscience (August 1991)

prey for but a minute of his time and he sullenly assents by playing the "Minute Waltz." But too much oflmpromptu is neither camp nor full-bodied drama, neither truly funny nor grippingly...

Critics' choices for Christmas: (December 1990)

BOOKS Critics' choices lor Christinas lean Bethke Elshtain JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN is the Centennial Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. Her most recent book is Women and War...

Revolutionary Pulaski: (April 1990)

REVOLUTIONARY PULASKI OLD SOUTH & NEW Pulaski, Tennessee, is a town under siege. In October 1989 about 175 Klansmen and members of the Aryan Nations converged on Pulaski, much against the will of...

Whose Keeper? (January 1990)

NEITHER MARKET NOR STATE WHOSE KEEFEH? Social Science and Moral Obligation Alan Wolfe University of California Press, $25, 371 pp. Jean Belhke Elshtcrin his is a timely and important book. Alan...

A Strategy for Peace: (July 1989)

A STRATEGY FOR PEACE Human Values and the Threat of War Sissela Bok Pantheon, $17.95,202 pp. Jean Belhke Elshtain Prior to World War I, liberal internationalist hopes soared. Some 194 treaties...

The Radical Renewal (February 1989)

CAN SOCIAL THEORY SAVE US? THE RADICAL RENEWAL The Politics of Ideas in Modern America Norman Birnbaum Pantheon, $16.95, 265 pp. Jean Bethke Elshtain Norman Birnbaum is a witty, erudite thinker...

Lessons from Amherst: (March 1988)

LESSONS FROM AMHERST DRAGNET OR AGENDA FOR ACTION? An ugly headline on the front page of a recent Sunday edition of the Boston Globe reads: "RACIAL ACTS STAIN IVORY tow- ERS." The article goes on to...

Fingerprints on file (April 1987)

REPORT FROM ARGENTINA FINGERPRINTS ON FILE THE SEARCH FOR MISSING CHILDREN A melia Herrera de Miranda is waiting for Matildc. The wait is tortuous for Mrs. Herrera, yet her days are filled with...

The abstract enemy (January 1986)

III I I I I I I II I II I II AN ARAB WAS GOING DOWN TO JERICHO . . . JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN I N HIS SMALL masterwork, The Warriors, J. Glenn Gray argues that one basic aim of a modern state at...

Christmas critics' choices (November 1985)

Books: CRITICS' CHRISTMAS CHOICES Denis Donoghue DENIS DONOGHUE holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters at New York University. His most recent book is Art without Mystery...

Decarceration (July 1985)

Between punishment & therapy DECARCERATION COMMUNITY TREATMENT AND THE DEVIANT-A RADICAL VIEW Andrew Scull Rutgers University, $30, $12 paper, 234 pp. Jean Bethke...

Cross Sections: (June 1983)

The surface of change CROSS SECTIONS FROM A DECADE OF CHANGE Elizabeth Janeway Morrow, $14.95, 320 pp. Jean Bethke Elshtain ELIZABETH JANEWAY's new book is aptly sub-titled "from a decade of...

On humanness & honoring the dead: (March 1983)

A SET OF DEEPLY FELT IMPERATIVES On humanness & honoring the dead JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN I ASK THE READER to picture in his or her mind's eye, at a time long ago and far away, the scene described...

Her father's daughter (February 1983)

(one presumes) a bun. But there is more: resolution, fear, concern, relief, eyes that speak of her recent interrogation, a mouth that, determinedly set as it is, nevertheless turns up at the corners...

The Family on Trial (November 1981)

Books: PHILOSOPHERS VS. THE FAMILY THE FAMILY ON TRIAL SPECIAL RELATIONSHIPS IN MODERN POLITICAL THOUGHT Philip Abbott Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, $16.75, 230 pp. Jean Bethke Elshtain THIS...

Ambition (July 1981)

Books: DIRTY LITTLE SOPORIFIC THIS is a strange book. Epstein means to resurrect 'ambition' from the bad name it currently holds. Sadly, he observes, "To say of a young man or woman that he or she...

A feminist's journey: (June 1981)

A DILEMMA HAUNTS THE MOVEMENT A feminist's journey JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN The following is a talk delivered at the Putney School, Putney, Vermont. THE EDITORS I have been asked to discuss what the...

Patricide in the House Divided (April 1981)

Passion, compassion, & public leadership PATRICIDE IN THE HOUSE DIVIDED A PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF LINCOLN AND HIS AGE George B. Forgie W, W. Norton, $14.95, 308 pp. Jean Bethke...

Family reconstruction (August 1980)

THE FAMILY IN A TIME OF TROUBLES-1 Family reconstruction JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN IT HAS become a truism of our time that the contemporary family or, more accurately, contemporary families...

The Lust to Annihilate (June 1980)

Greek culture & the god of love THE LUST TO ANNIHILATE: A Psychoanalytic Study of Violence in Ancient Greek Culture Eli Sagan Psychohistory Press, $12, 231 pp. Jean Bethke Elshtain ELI SAGAN...

Haven in a Heartless World (March 1979)

conquered. It does not take a great deal of more and institutions, Elias helps us rec- trol; all self-righteous and priggish forces historical insight to realize that he was ognize their...

UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS (May 1977)

8ome Om~tmulbqf Books of the Y~r 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS Walter Arnold "Why should we not also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" Emerson's leading...

BOOKS (March 1977)

is an avatar of eternal youth, that in a mythic sense the Lord of the Jungle matures, but never grows up? Does this mean, deep underneath, unconsciously, that Burroughs tends to be what...

TWO CRITICS OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL (October 1976)

BOOKS TWO CRITICS OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN Half the House HERBERT KOHL Bantam, $1.95 The night is dark and I am far from home JONATHAN KOZOL Houghton Mifflin, $7.95 The...

'WHAT I THINK ABOUT THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH': A Personal Memoir (November 1975)

'What I think about the Roman Catholic Church' Fourth in a Series A PERSONAL MEMOIR JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN I have had a long, troubled relationship with the Church. (I learned to call the Roman...

BOOKS (September 1975)

A History of Judaism Volume One: From Abraham to Maimonides DANIEL JEREMY SILVER Volume Two: Europe and the New World BERNARD MARTIN Basic Books, $37 DAVID STERN While the past decade has...

BOOKS: (January 1975)

BOOKS Religion and Revolution GUENTER LEWY Oxford University Press, $17.50 J. M. CAMERON Religion has most of the time been a conservative influence, socially if not intellectually. From the...

Books (November 1974)

in religion because God . . . does not oppose the individual as others do." But he also accepted the general intellectual convention that "what characterizes modern life is the failure of...

THE ANTI-FEMINIST BACKLASH: (March 1974)

BOOKS THE ANTI-FEMINIST BACKLASH JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN The Inevitability of mately resides in the...

Beyond Sexual Politics (April 1972)

ter merely by having his fearless son Santino fear him and having his prudent son Michael respect his judgment. In the novel there are several key conversations in which Don Corleone discusses...

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Emerson, Matt

Emery, James A.

Emery, Josephine

Emmanuel, Pierre

Emmanuel, Sister M. Janet, S.C.L.

Emmet, Christopher

Endo, Shusaku

Engberg, Edward

Engelbrecht, H. C.