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Don't tear down fences Boundaries bestow benefits (July 1997)

DON'T TEAR DOWN FENCES DAVID R. CARLIN, JR. First ask why they are there In the world of real estate, ev-eryone understands the im-portance of boundaries. The same is true in the world of...

Donohue's crusade Intellectual scorn for Catholicism is not the same as old-time bigotry (May 1997)

OF SEVERAL MINDS DAVID R. CARLIN, JR. DONOHUE'S CRUSADE Tilting at the wrong windmill One of the most entertaining characters on the current American Catholic scene is William A. Donohue, who...

Taming the big bucks Only a democratically reinvigorated electorate can offset the influence of money (April 1997)

DAVID R. CARLIN, JR. TAMING THE BIG BUCKS Democratic activism is the only way Given the attention the press is paying to the issue, I suppose it is inevitable that we'll have a campaign finance...

Taking liberties (October 1996)

DAVID R. CARLIN, JR. TAKING LIBERTIES Lawyers above the law The younger of my two sons has just begun law school. What a great country. For years I have been an underpaid columnist, yet within a...

Microscopic rights Jurisprudence turns suicidal (June 1996)

DAVID R. CARLIH, JR. MICROSCOPIC RIGHTS An expanding constitutional universe In early March, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in the case of Compassion in Dying v. State of Washington,...

Face it, we've lost (May 1996)

DAVID R. CARLIN, JR. FACE IT, WE'VE LOST Catholics in an alien culture Even when the signs are right under our noses, clamoring for our attention, most of us don't like to admit we are in grave...

Including voters out The Democrats are practicing particide Yes, particide (March 1996)

OF SEVERAL MINDS DAVID R. CARLIH, JR. INCLUDING VOTERS OUT The Dems do it better than Buchanan Hhe conventional judgment about Pat Buchanan's speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention...

Teaching values in school About the only thing we have in common is our disagreements-about abortion, adultery, affirmative action, euthanasia, etc (February 1996)

DAVID R. CARLIN, JR. TEACH1NG VALUES IN SCHOOL Which ones? Whose? There is much talk nowadays about the need for public schools to teach moral val- ues. In a society which, for thirty years, has...

Ordaining women is rational Unlike the Trinity, the Incarnation, and the Eucharist (January 1996)

DAVID R. CARLIN, JR. ORDAINING WOMEN IS RATIONAL That doesn't make it Christian As everyone knows, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's office) has declared...

Why Farrakhan repels The elevation of Louis Farrakhan is a disaster for all Americans (November 1995)

OF SEVERAL MINDS DAVID R. CARLIH, JR. WHY FARRAKHAN REPELS The pathology of anti-Semitism I don't know if you can bear reading yet one more commentary on the O. J. Simp-son verdict's public...

On the way to the altar Both those for and against the requirement of priestly celibacy have something in common: poor arguments (October 1995)

DAVID R. CARLIN, JR. ON THE WAY TO THE ALTAR Should priests be allowed to say 'I do'? I admit to having no very decided convictions on the burning question of whether the Catholic church should...

A liberal Catholic taxonomy (September 1995)

OF SEVERAL MINDS DAVID R. CARLIN, JR. A LIBERAL CATHOLIC TAXONOMY Or was that a Catholic liberal taxonomy? In the November 18, 1994, issue of Commonweal the editorial was titled "Liberals &...

Beliefs matter: (July 1995)

OF SEVERAL HMDS David R. Carlin, Jr. BELIEFS MATTER UNDERSTANDING THE AMERICAN SCENE Every semester I teach a course in introductory sociology, and late in the semester we come to the chapter on...

Gay rights laws: (October 1990)

OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. GAY RIGHTS LAWS THE NECESSARY CAVEAT A few years ago in this space (November 29, 1985) I wrote apiece in which I agreed with those who opposed gay rights...

What makes an act good?: (September 1990)

OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. WHAT MAKES AN ACT GOOD? PURE HEARTS VS. GOOD RESULTS A perennial dispute among moralists has to dowithhowtheright- ness or wrongness of an action is to be...

Personally opposed, but... (June 1990)

OF SEVERAL MINDS David Carlin PERSONALLY OPPOSED, BUT... A MORALLY NEUTRAL STATE I am personally opposed to abortion, but...." This line has been a favorite in recent times among many...

Aborting history: (May 1990)

OF SEVERAL HINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. ABORTING HISTORY RESPONSIBILITY & REMEMBERING In the great ages of philosophy, some metaphysicians (e.g., Plotinus, Aquinas, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hegel)...

A manifesto for Marxists: (April 1990)

A MANIFESTO FOR MARXISTS Since everything, as the ecologists remind us, is connected with everything else, we should not be surprised to learn that upheavals in far-away lands threaten career...

If nothing is knowable...: (December 1989)

ABORTION AND THE LEGISLATOR DEAR CONSTITUENT: HERE'S WHERE I STAND Responding to a Commonweal editorial (Nov. 3), a reader contends, and demonstrates, that not all politicians are evading the...

Education isn't a problem: (November 1989)

OF SEVERAL WIMPS David R. Carlin, Jr. EDUCATION ISN'T A PROBLEM IT'S MORE LIKE A MYSTERY merica's education problems were once again put on the national front burner for a few days in late...

A tragedy without villains: (October 1989)

OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. A TRAGEDY WITHOUT VILLAINS THE POLITICAL BATTLE OVER ABORTION Hegel, whose philosophy constitutes a kind of ex-traordinarily long epic poem in celebration of...

Take a stand, or several: (September 1989)

OF SEVERAL HINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. TAKE A STAND, OR SEVERAL ON NOT BEING NONJUDGMENTAL Years ago I discovered what countless other teachers have discovered-a cheap and easy trick for...

As American as freeways: (July 1989)

AS AMERICAN AS FREEWAYS equal," thereby upholding the South's newly enacted Jim Crow laws by finding them to be not inconsistent with the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause. Nearly...

Backing into modernity: (April 1989)

OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. BACKING INTO MODERNITY CONFESSIONS OF A CULTURAL CONSERVATIVE When pressed to describe myself as either a liberal or a conserva-tive, I respond (stealing...

The failure of success (January 1989)

OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. THE FAILURE OF SUCCESS POLITICS & THE TRUE SELF Life, as everyone knows, takes strange twists and turns. Years ago I set out to become a scholar and...

Oh, to be a Hoosier: (December 1988)

OH, TO BE A HOOSIER WHY THE DEMOCRATS KEEP LOSING In the final weeks of the presidential campaign Michael Dukakis valiantly tried to live down the ' 'L-word'' by living up to it. Yes, he confessed...

The mind has a life, too: (November 1988)

THE MIND HAS A LIFE, TOO CAN THE SCHOOLS SHARPEN IT? Not only is 1988 an election year in the United States, an election in which both candidates for president stress the importance of education...

For the 'L' of it: (September 1988)

OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. FOR THE 1' OF IT MADE IN THE U.S.A. One of the most aston-ishing terminological developments in the politics of our time is that "liberal" has become a...

For love of the game: (July 1988)

David R. Carlin, Jr. FOR LOVE OF THE GAME POLITICIANS & THEIR SECRET A few months ago I was inattentively watching a PBS program on Robert Lowell when a remark caught my ear. Someone was saying...

Floating in mid-air: (June 1988)

FLOATING IN MID-AIR ARE ALL OPINIONS CREATED EQUAL? My daughter, who is ten years old and in the fifth grade, re-cently explained to me the distinction between fact and opinion. I was pleased to...

Hoofbeats of revival: (May 1988)

OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. HOOFBEATS OF REVIVAL CLIPPETY-CLOP, CLIPPETY-CLOP Religion, it seems to me, is on the verge of one of its periodic revivals in the United States. This sort...

Creeping neutralism: (March 1988)

OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. CREEPING NEUTRALISM THE FEAR OF PASSING JUDGMENTS When I was a boy, Taft Republicans (Robert, not William Howard - it has been a long time since I was a boy,...

Citizens of a good polis: (February 1988)

OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. CITIZENS OF A GOOD POLIS THE PROPER CURRICULUM I have always found it ironic, hence amusing, that the theme song for William Buckley's TV program, "Firing...

Pawtucket & its Nativity scene: (December 1983)

CHRISTMAS, COMMUNITY, CULTURE, & THE CONSTITUTION Pawtucket & its Nativity scene DAVID R. CARLIN, JR. ON OCTOBER 4, 1983, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of...

The dilemma of an anti-abortion Democrat: (November 1983)

WE'VE LET THE NATIONAL PARTY IGNORE OUR OPPOSITION The dilemma of an anti-abortion Democrat DAVID R. CARLIN, JR. THE STORY goes that Hegel, whose doctrine was anything but orthodox Christianity,...

The 'sequel rule' & 'Lolita rights': (September 1983)

SEXUAL ACTIVITY: IS IT REALLY A PRIVATE ACT? The 'squeal rule' & 'Lolita rights' DAVID R. CARLIN, JR. MY FRIEND HASTINGS, who is getting old enough now to qualify as a dirty old man whenever he...

The cloud of inconsistency: (April 1983)

LIBERALS, CONSERVATIVES, & TUITION TAX CREDITS The cloud of inconsistency DAVID R. CARLIN, JR. COMMENTING on the opening sentence of Aristotle's Metaphysics, "All men by nature desire to know,"...

Social insecurity: (February 1983)

SOCIAL INSECURITY LETTER-BOMBS TO THE RESCUE DAVID R. CARLIN, JR. LET me make it plain at the outset that I'm not a supporter of the Social Security reform plan recently put forward by the...

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