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A Rival Magisterium Shaun Blanchard and Richard T. Yoder What today’s traditionalists have in common with the Jansenists In 1826, an old royalist priest in the French countryside wrote his...

â€˜Commonwealâ€™ and the Vietnam War (March 2025)

ARTICLE ‘Commonweal’ and the Vietnam War Peter Steinfels How and why the magazine changed its position When I joined its staff in the summer of 1964, Commonweal supported the war in Vietnam....

The politics of victimhood (April 2024)

ARTICLE Drip, Drip, Drip Peter Steinfels What the funeral of a trans activist at St. Patrick’s Cathedral—and the reactions to it—say about our cultural politics On Thursday, February 15, a...

Remembering John Leo (June 2022)

SHORT TAKES PETER STEINFELS Chronicler of Follies Remembering John Leo John Leo died on May 10 at the age of eighty-six. The headline for the New York Times obituary described him as a...

The bishops and Roe (June 2022)

The Bishops and Roe On Wednesday, May 4, Religion News Service (RNS) carried a dispatch headed “Roe v. Wade: Faith leaders react to leaked SCOTUS opinion.” The article quoted...

Escaping the Straitjacket (April 2022)

Escaping the Straitjacket PETER STEINFELS Nouvelle théologie is not exactly a household term, except perhaps in some Commonweal-reading households. A report on “new theological currents”...

The bishops, the Eucharist & abortion (September 2021)

Separate Challenges Peter Steinfels The bishops, the Eucharist, and abortion The American bishops have two teaching challenges. One is about the Eucharist. The other is about abortion. They are...

My life as a socialist (March 2020)

ARTICLE Does Socialism Have a Future? PETER STEINFELS My Life as a Socialist One day in my third year of college, my French teacher asked me to speak with her after class. I was surprised. My...

More than a Symbol (February 2020)

ARTICLE More than a Symbol Peter Steinfels Are liberal Catholics too quick to dismiss evidence that belief in the Real Presence may be declining? N o signature phrase from the...

Remembering Daniel Callahan (September 2019)

PETER STEINFELS Uncommon Clarity Remembering Daniel Callahan (1930-2019) D aniel Callahan never stopped asking hard questions. The week before he died, on July 16, two days before his...

Vehemently Misleading (January 2019)

ARTICLE Vehemently Misleading The Pennsylvania Grand-Jury Report Is Not What It Seems Peter Steinfels August 15 is the Feast of the Assumption, a "holy day of obligation," when Catholics are...

Catholic Modern and Catholics on the Barricades (May 2018)

BOOKS Peter Steinfels Half the Story Catholic Modern The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church James Chappel Harvard University Press, $35, 352 pp. Catholics on the...

The War against Just War (June 2017)

The War against Just War Enough Already Peter Steinfels All my life I have been haunted by Catholic teachings on just war. Well, I exaggerate. It was not until age three that I launched my first...

A Turn That Went a Long Way (March 2017)

Peter Steinfels A Turn That Went a Long Way REMEMBERING MICHAEL NOVAK Any adequate account of the swirling currents in Catholic intellectual life during the decades following the 1960s and...

The Semi-Fascist (June 2016)

ARTICLES The S emi-Fascist How Dangerous Is Donald Trump ? Peter Steinfels Let's be clear: Donald Trump is not a fascist; he is a semi-fascist. I recognize the risk of using the f-word. In fact,...

Great Is the Truth (October 2015)

FALL BOOKS Peter Steinfels Sexual Abuse Among the Elite Great Is the Truth Secrecy, Scandal, and the Quest for Justice at the Horace Mann School Amos Kamil, with Sean Elder Farrar, Straus &...

Contraception & Honesty (June 2015)

ARTICLE Contraception & Honesty A Proposal for the Next Synod Peter Steinfels Perhaps the most important moment of last October's Extraordinary Synod on the Family occurred at its very...

Not Ours to Mend (February 2015)

SHORT TAKES Peter Steinfels Not Ours To Mend JOHN GARVEY, R.I.P. When Regina Garvey phoned to say that John had died that morning, I was speechless. I heard my voice repeating so sorry so sorry...

Writing from Left to Right (May 2014)

SPRING BOOKS Peter Steinfels Goodbye to All That Writing from Left to Right My Journey from Liberal to Conservative Michael Novak Image, $24, 336 pp. Michael Novak is now eighty years old. For...

Beyond the Stalemate (June 2013)

ARTICLE Beyond the Stalemate Forty Years after 'Roe Peter Steinfels In January we were amply reminded by marches, protests, editorials, op-ed screeds, and TV sound bites that it has been forty...

Shock Therapy (March 2013)

Peter Steinfels Shock Therapy COULD THE NEXT POPE LEARN FROM BENEDICT? By resigning, Pope Benedict served the church well. He has spared it another prolonged period of mounting disarray. He has...

What We've Learned (August 2012)

ARTICLES What We've Learned Confronting Sexual Abuse, Then & Now Peter Steinfels In the summer of 1958, when I turned seventeen, I discovered and reported a case of an adult sexually abusing...

The Bishops & Religious Liberty (June 2012)

Peter Steinfels Threats to religious freedom have been a constant in American history. So have alarmist religious appeals that stir public hysteria, serve partisan ends, and degrade religion and...

Accommodation or Engagement? (May 2012)

Accommodation or Engagement? Peter Steinfels Ross Douthat, the youngest writer to win a regular spot among New York Times columnists, is a promising recruit to the tribe of...

Can We Talk About Abortion? (September 2011)

Peter Steinfels Abortion, Dennis O'Brien writes, "deserves careful and compassionate discussion well beyond the slogans and banners of political confrontation—not least among thoughtful Catholics."...

Fabricating Bernardin (May 2011)

ARTICLES Fabricating Bernardin How Not to Write About the Cardinal & His Time Peter Steinfels Few tools in the historian's kit are as fundamental as periodization. By naming distinct stretches...

Winner-Take-All Politics (March 2011)

BOOKS Peter Steinfels The Great Reversal Winner-Take-All Politics How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class Jacob S. Hacker & Paul Pierson Simon & Schuster,...

Politics and the Intellectual (January 2011)

BOOKS Peter Steinfels Model of Dissent Politics and the Intellectual Conversations with Irving Howe Edited by John Rodden and Ethan Goffman Purdue University Press, $30.95, 376 pp. The last...

16 Further Adrift (October 2010)

ARTICLES Further Adrift The American Church's Crisis of Attrition It is not often that someone at a New York dinner party calls for a count of religious affiliations, and I cannot recall exactly...

Ill Fares the Land (September 2010)

BOOKS Peter Steinfels Last Testament 111 Fares the Land Tony Judt Penguin Press, $25.95, 256 pp. Tony Judt died on Friday, August 6. I learned that the next day as I was finishing this review...

A Bricklayer's Son: Stanley Hauerwas remembers (May 2010)

Articles A Bricklayer's Son Stanley Hauerwas & the Christian Difference Peter Steinfels Stanley Hauerwas is the most immediately likable bombthrower I have ever met. I first encountered...

Modernity & Belief (May 2008)

Modernity & Belief Charles Taylor’s ‘A Secular Age’ Peter Steinfels I n 1949, Karl Jaspers introduced the notion of an “axial age” to describe a few centuries around the middle of the...

Note from the Good Thief (March 2008)

The last Word Note from the Good Thief Peter Steinfels S trictly speaking, Luke 23: 32, 39–43 had my story right: “When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they...

'A Catholic in the Room' (October 2007)

Articles ‘A Catholic in the Room’ Second Thoughts on Hilaire Belloc Peter Steinfels On May 18, 1937, Hilaire Belloc completed a series of lectures at Fordham University, published later...

The Face of God (August 2007)

Commonweal . August 17, 2007 8 Continuing the Conversation The Face of God Peter Steinfels WHAT BENEDICT’S ‘JESUS’ OFFERS You can read Pope Benedict XVI’s Jesus of Nazareth (Doubleday,...

Jack Deedy, R.I.R (April 2006)

Farewell John Deedy, R.I.P. On March 28, John Deedy, managing editor of Commonweal from 1967 to 1978, died at age eighty-two. Jack came to Commonweal at a tense moment and in delicate...

Correspondence 'Catholic ignorance' (May 2004)

Teaching the basics John Cavadini's "Ignorant Catholics" (April 9) points to the growing gap between theology and catechetics. Too often theology is seen as a discipline for elites and catechetics...

Sexual Abuse & the Church (March 2004)

SEXUAL ABUSE & THE CHURCH What we've learned & what we still don't know Peter Steinfels T here was a ritual quality to the February 27 re-lease of two studies of the sexual molestation of...

A quiet heroism James O'Gara, R I P (November 2003)

Peter Steinfels A QUIET HEROISM James O'Gara, R.LP. It was gratifying that both the Washington Post (October 27) and the New York Times (November 1) published significant obituaries taking note...

Always a priest Philip J Murnion, R.I.P. (September 2003)

Peter Steinfels ALWAYS A PRIEST Monsignor Philip J. Murnion, R.I.P. The death, on August 19, of Monsignor Philip J. Murnion at age sixty-five was a great loss to the Catholic Church in the United...

FIXING THE LITURGY It's time for Catholics to get beyond ideological conflict over the Mass Better liturgy is in everyone's interest (July 2003)

FIXING THE LITURGY What we have done & what we have failed to do Peter Steinfels on an average Sunday, approximately 20 million Catholics go to Mass in the United States. Contrary to conventional...

Correspondence Garry Wills et al (August 2002)

CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors The final secret In his review of my book Why I Am a Catholic ("Where's the Beef?" July 12), Peter Steinfels proves that he is an ideal subject of the current pope...

Why I Am a Catholic (July 2002)

Where's the beef? Why I Am a Catholic Garry Wills Houghton Mifflin, $21, 390 pp. Peter Steinfels Carry Wills, perhaps the nation's widest-ranging man of letters or, as the phrase now goes,...

Correspondence Sex abuse & baby boomers (June 2002)

CORROSPONDENCE Prove it Peter Steinfels's "The Church's Sex-Abuse Crisis" (April 19) is interesting, but he repeatedly makes use of the assertion that "what we are not seeing is a new post-1993...

THE CHURCH'S SEX-ABUSE CRISIS What the media coverage & commentary about the sex-abuse crisis have missed (April 2002)

THE CHURCH'S SEX-ABUSE CRISIS What's old, what's new, what's needed-and why Peter Steinfels There are scandals and then there are scandals. Most are ugly, absorbing, and quickly forgot-ten. A few...

THE NEXT GENERATION: A DIAGNOSIS: We have seen the future and it's... (November 2001)

The question for younger Catholics is not, Why do we leave the church? There are plenty of obvious reasons: patriarchy, a secular world, lack of faith, poor liturgies, homophobia. The more...

What kind of 'war'?: A journalist, a diplomat, a foreign-policy expert, and a theologian contemplate our future. (September 2001)

WHAT KIND OF 'WAR'? Four responses Peter Steinfels The phone rang. "What do you think we should do? Stay here or leave?" my daughter asked. She was calling from the forty-first floor of an...

EMPTY CONFESSIONALS: Examination of conscience (February 2001)

Long before I became a Catholic, my Jesuit-educated husband, born into and faithful to the church, told me that if I ever entered it, I wouldn't be eligible for confession. He explained that...

Political note: Movable planks (September 2000)

phasis on the papacy that originated only in the first half of Correction In John Garvey's August 11 col- ...

THE CRISIS OF LIBERAL CATHOLICISM A Commonweal Forum: Between powerful enemies & dubious allies (November 1999)

• The Crisis of Liberal Catholicism • REINVENTING LIBERAL CATHOLICISM Between powerful enemies & dubious allies Peter Steinfels L et's not waste a minute: What is a crisis?...

Joseph Druffel, R.I.P. (August 1999)

Peter Steinfels JOSEPH DRUFFEL, R.I.P. Architect for the poor Something is different," my wife Peggy said as we entered Saint Gregory the Great Church on West 90th Street in Manhattan, where we...

KEEPING COLLEGES CATHOLIC: WHAT'S AT STAKE? (April 1999)

Peter Steinfels A JOURNALIST'S VIEW Does Rome have the best answer? Hn May 1,1991, the front page of the New York Times carried an article describing the difficulties faced by Catholic colleges...

A tarnished 'Republic' (June 1998)

Peter Steinfels A TARNISHED 'REPUBLIC' 'Attitude' that led to a fall C owering like a televangelist caught in the wrong motel room and now begging forgiveness, that was the ungenerous image...

HOW CATHOLIC IS THE CTSA? (March 1998)

n June 1997, Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston aroused great indignation by writing that the Catholic Theological Society of America "has become an association of advocacy for theological dissent"...

Correspondence Lincoln & Saginaw revisited (August 1997)

Not a feel-good' faith Peter Steinfels's article about Murray Kempton [June 6] hurts me deeply. I am concerned that a respected journalist would attempt to characterize something as deep and...

Murray Kempton, R. I. P. (June 1997)

Peter Steinfels MURRAY KEMPTON, R.I.P. The journalist of Original Sin Several lives ago, when I was a graduate student working at Commonweal and living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, I...

THE POLLSTERS LOOK AT U S CATHOLICS (September 1996)

CATHOLICS & THE FUTURE THE POLLSTERS LOOK AT M.S. CATHOLICS And are all too cheerful about their findings Peter Stelnfels Happy the historian who, fifty years from now, sets out to portray the...

Correspondence: (March 1995)

CORRESPONDENCE NRLC unheard Lawrence, Mass. To the Editors: Dr. Jim Hood's criticism [Correspondence, February 10] of the National Right to Life Committee's response to violence does not square...

Signs & numbers (January 1995)

Signs & numbers On April 21-23.1994, a New York Times/CBS News poll queried a national sample of Americans by telephone. About thirty-five questions were asked specifically to those responding...

Crossing the Threshold of Hope, by Pope John Paul II: (January 1995)

BOOKS Surprising, demanding, impressive CROSSING THE THRESHOLD OF HOPE Pope John Paul II Edited by Vittorio Messori, translated from the Italian by Jenny and Martha McPhee Alfred A. Knopf, $20,...

Lead Us Not into Temptation (March 1993)

performers. The most obvious explanation for the successful fatal evening when Frank returns to Ireland. What comes run of the play must lie in the performances of McCowen,...

CELAM & the Vatican (November 1992)

REPORT FROM SANTO DOMINGO—I CELAM & THE VATICAN PREFERENTIAL OPTION FOR DICKERING uring all the goodbys, I couldn't help thinking that a lot of bishops must be wondering whether this was...

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...

The heritage abandoned? Part II (September 1987)

THE HERITAGE ABANDONED? CATHOLIC THOUGHT ON WAR & PEACE - PART H PETER STEINFELS eorge Weigel's TranqUillitas Ordinis: The Present Failure and Future Promise of American Catholic Thought on...

Heritage abandoned? (September 1987)

THE HERITAGE ABANDONED? GEORGE WEIGEL EXPLAINS IT ALL PETER STEINFELS There is a conventional view of American Catholic thinking on questions of war and peace. It goes something like this:...

Christians and the Military (June 1986)

tions the need to worship "some force In our June 6 issue, Debra framework of limited government, al- beyond and above human nature."...

Taking Sides (January 1986)

dent law and policy -- just as they expect public leaders to respect the right and competence of churchmen to define church teaching: this is one meaning of religious freedom and church-state...

So far, so good, so what (December 1985)

CONFLICTS & CODE WORDS: A SOBER LOOK AT THE SYNOD So far, so good, so what PETER STEINFELS WHEN I RETURNED from Rome after the first week of the synod, my eye caught the covers of two...

Appointment with Hitler (July 1985)

CONFRONTING THE MORAL QUESTION OF WORLD WAR II Appointment with Hitler pp4^^ PETER STEINFELS AMONG the several deplorable side effects of the Bitburg controversy was this: the question of the...

Social Justice Ministry (November 1984)

lieve that they are over-taxed and pay a disproportionate percentage of the cost of welfare. They are right on both counts. But those working- and middle-class people draw a completely erroneous...

A Social History of England (October 1984)

| I m | "BREAD FOR THE WORLD is a very human and moving analysis...an eloquent plea which simply cannot be ignored, for citizen action." sities across the country. Using simple, clear languafle...

Christian Spirituality; Japanese Society (September 1984)

a nymph whipping a man with her long wet blond hair. And what is left is Mr. Herbert's ver- sion of the common people, whom he calls "muck." Poor "muck" is in the cheap seats of this melodrama,...

Correspondence (June 1983)

Correspondence 'DEMOCRATIC CAPITALISM' MICHAEL NOVAK, ROBERT BENNE, & OTHERS A simple shortage of space in our pages has prevented us from publishing more promptly the extended replies to Peter...

Does capitalism=pluralism= democracy? (February 1983)

QUESTIONS NOVAK & BENNE POSE TO THE RELIGIOUS LEFT Does capitalism equal pluralism equal democracy? PETER STEINFELS "MANY THOUGHTFUL PERSONS have observed that the United States has evolved a...

Michael Novak and his ultrasuper democraticapitalism: (January 1983)

Michael Novak & his ultrasuper democraticapitalism PETER STEINFELS "The odyssey of a Catholic in our society, if he decides to remain one, takes peculiar turns." Michael Novak, opening sentence...

Life after Teddy?: (December 1982)

LIFE AFTER TEDDY? THE KENNEDY BARRIER IS GONE MORE THAN ONE person reacted to Ted Kennedy's withdrawal from the 1984 presidential race by saying, "Well, it shows what a good president he would...

The Talk Show Murders (July 1982)

Sweet revenge THE TALK SHOW MURDERS Steve Allen Delacorte, $12.95, 314 pp. Peter Steinfels CAN'T say I usually read suspense novels, for the same reason I don't drink diet soda-refreshing while...

Joe McCarthy and the Press (May 1982)

In Brief Joe McCarthy and the Press by Edwin R. Bay ley, University of Wisconsin Press, $16.50, 270 pp. The daily papers, in New York and Washington as well as Wisconsin's small towns; the wire...

A battle between liberals? (November 1981)

IS IT POSSIBLE that the abortion struggle is really one between two left-of-center groups? The very idea clashes with all our images of pro-life and pro-choice opposition, with all the impressions...

The search for an alternative (November 1981)

CAN LIBERAL CATHOLICISM MAKE A DISTINCT CONTRIBUTION? The search for an alternative PETER STEINFELS IT IS HARD to tell whether the present impasse over abortion will be lasting. At the moment...

Name your socialism (September 1980)

one benefit or another but, rather, a permanent instrument enabling him to fight for his fights without fear of punishment or reprisal." Alexander Cockburn, in the Village Voice, was even sharper:...

Domestic Affairs: (June 1979)

Moore's account of many of the bishops' ical ironies or intricate theorizing. New Dealers can't survive. Doesn't he attacks on him is admirably restrained, The very structure of...

Critics' Christmas Choices (December 1978)

Books: CRITICS' CHRISTMAS CHOICES Bernard McCabe M IARTIN GREEN, in The Challenge of the Mahatmas (Basic Books, I $10.95 [256 pp. ]) discusses two scandalous figures who publicly taught in...

THE CASE OF ALGER HISS-ZZZzzzzz (May 1978)

It was perhaps inevitable, the final step in the regression of American politics to the 1950s: The political journals are again battling over Alger Hiss. Professor Weinstein, in...

THE ANGEL GARRIEL DISSENTS (December 1977)

Jl[ll I II I I I Mind you. Gabriel had never pretended to fathom the whole Plan. It certainly seemed excessive, and what God saw in humanity was a mystery to Gabriel. Still, be was not one...

GOVERNMENT BY WHAT PEOPLE? (November 1977)

"Once he is elected president, the president's electoral coalition has, in a sense, served its purpose . . . . What counts then is his ability to mobilize support from the leaders of the...

AN AGENDA FOR WASRINGTON (October 1977)

i Suite 617 at 853 Broadway, just off of Ne~v York's Union Square, is hardly your well-appointed corporate or foundation office. With its strictly no-nonsense, hand-me-down desks and filing...

AS I WAS SAYING (October 1977)

I I Illlll I I I Readers who enjoy TV reruns will relish the appearance of Michael Novak's comments [Correspondence, page 642] and the somewhat lengthy observations I am about to...

A SUDSY AFFAIR (September 1977)

A few days from now, ABC-TV will unwrap a product called "Soap," and by the time you read this, all the television critics will have been in a lather. I have not seen "Soap." I will not be...

A Memory and a Contrast (August 1977)

It was early on July 14, and the sans-culottes of my neighborhood were not storming the Bastille. They were looting a jewelry store. Earlier, when the lights went out we were amused. We...

The Politics of Abortion (July 1977)

The New York Times does not brandish the word "outrageous" lightly. "Outrageous," however, was its summary characterization of the common policy, now emerging from the Supreme Court, Congress,...

No Laughing Matter (July 1977)

Capitalism is dead. Dead, finished, kaput/ You may like this, you may not. But there's no use in denying the news. The news was revealed on page 3 of the Business Section of the June 5 New York...

A Little Knowledge (June 1977)

Warning: This Column Emanates from the Knowledge Industry. The Surgeon General Has Determined That Reading It May Be Dangerous to Your Moral Health. Not long ago it seemed that some popular...

Three Tales of a City (June 1977)

and talk. In the movie, the touring car comes around the comer as Eddie walks up the steps of the church: the familiar rat-a-tat-tat, Eddie sprawls dead on the steps and there's a flat cut to...

CONFESSIONS OF A NON-ADDICT (May 1977)

A MERICA USED t o mourn the passing of its innocence. Now, less ambitious, we mourn the passing of our "IV shows. Borne by our networks, we beat on ceaselessly into the past, and Gatsby's...

Doing Business With Business (May 1977)

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 FROM CANADA THE FRENCH FACT Several months have passed since the elections that brought Ren6 Lrvesque's Parti Qudb~cois to power in the National Assembly. Mr....

A SETBACK FOR WHAT? (April 1977)

SAN FRANCISCO, March 24--The Unification Church of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon received a major setback today when a State Superior Court judge ordered five adult members placed in the temporary...

NEW CHANCE FOR THE BISHOPS (April 1977)

E UROPEAN historians have often referred to the aborted revolutions of 1848 as the turning point when European history failed to turn. Historians of the Catholic Church in America may be able...

A MATTER PREORDAINED (March 1977)

III I AM sT was and elections and A energy crises and New York still teetering on the edge of bank- M/tl'l'r-lt ruptcy and newspaper reports of P I E O I [ ~ A I N E D three-year-olds being...

An Immodest Proposal (February 1977)

Serious political fife has begun once again. For almost a year it was suspended-in order to elect a president. And like a corpse that continues growing fingernails, the presidential...

MINUTES OF THE MEETING (January 1977)

I T IS WITHOUT question a blot on the multi-stained record of our leading newspapers that they have passed over in silence the remarkable event that transpired on Monday, December 13. Who but a...

PHILLIPS CURVE-OR SPITBALL (December 1976)

PHILLIPS CURVE-OR SPITBALL? PETER STEINFELS A ppearing on this channel two weeks ago, I listed four major obstacles to full employment. First on the list was an economic relationship called the...

SAVING TIME (October 1976)

SAVING TIME PETER STEINFELS According to Art Buchwald, the problem with America is that the Hope Diamond is in the Smithsonian. I have a better theory. The problem with America is the digital...

SECOND THOUGHTS ON SEX (September 1976)

SECOND THOUGHTS ON SEX PETER STEINFELS In my last column I was lamenting the tendency of first-rate thinkers to write about recent changes in sexual mores from an Olympian distance- or should I...

SEX AND LIBERATION (August 1976)

SEX AND LIBERATION PETER STEINFELS One day several months ago I was thinking, as usual, about sex, and I resolved to write something about it. I was not prov.oked, at that particular moment, by...

THE FOUR JIMMY CARTERS (August 1976)

THE FOUR JIMMY CARTERS PETER STEINFELS Jimmy carter the lay preacher; Jimmy Carter the modernizing engineer and Naval officer; Jimmy Carter the cautious and conventional businessman; Jimmy Carter...

PERSECUTION IN LITHUANIA (July 1976)

"Tk~ stsn~ the asase betweene God ~ us. Wee are entered into Covenmt w~ h~ for thi~ wort,. 9 9 9 H wee :ktl! ~ ~ the ob~rvac~ o! ~ ,O~ks which ,~r the ~a~Is wee h~v~ pro/~nd,.d, . .. d~ will...

DO WE NEED A NEW COLD WAR? (June 1976)

DO WE NEED A NEW COLD WAR? PETER STEINFELS The past year has seen several notable examples of a special kind of magazine article. In each case the author presents a scenario which at first glance...

A MATTER OF DEFINITIONS (June 1976)

MATTER OF DEFINITIONS PETER STEMFELS A few definitions: Failure of nerve. A degenerative condition reported to afflict American foreign-policy-m a k i n g. Manifests itself in the suspicion,...

DEATH OF A HERO (May 1976)

DEATH OF A PETER STEMHFELS John Cogley and I were barely acquainted. Incredible as it may seem to those who imagine a tight circle of liberal Catholics, we met twice, at most three times. Those...

DEATH COMES TO LIFE (April 1976)

TO LIFE PETER STEINFELS Several years ago Americans discovered that they die. This fact bad not gone entirely unnoticed before, not by those facing the mysterious passage out of this world, not by...

THE SCHORR WITCHHUNT (March 1976)

THE SCHORR WITCHHUNT PETER STEINELS I would have preferred to say so several weeks ago, before CBS half disowned him and a Congressional committee was threatening to run him to earth, but Daniel...

THE ACID TEST: THE C. I. A. (February 1976)

ACID TEST: THEC.I.A. PETER STEINFELS THERE is much talk of the United States as the "liberty party" in the world. On the face of it, such talk is welcome, if only because it could become a...

THE KENNEDY AFFAIR(S) (January 1976)

THE KENNEDY AFFAIR(S) PETER STEINFELS THE blase attitude with which Americans have absorbed the reports of John F. Kennedy's amorous activities has me perplexed. It is true that reports of JFK's...

THE HISTORIAN'S HEROD (January 1976)

HISTORIAN'S HEROD PETER STEINFELS King Herod, dear reader, has been misunderstood. The Massaere of the Innocents is folklore. "The real problem raked by the career of Herod" is how a small country...

IN MEMORY OF KING HEROD (January 1976)

IN MEMORY OF KING HEROD PETER STEINFELS A MONG THAT select group of citizens who still remember, amidst all our current public troubles, a recent episode in the nation's history known as the war...

THE QUINLAN DECISION: (December 1975)

QUINLAN DECISION PETER STEINFELS THE drama, the publicity, the sad-ness of the Karen Quinlan case, the unsophisticated nobility of her parents, the gravity of the issues under consideration, all,...

RAPE REALITY, RAPE FANTASY (November 1975)

RAPE REALITY, RAPE FANTASY PETER STEINFELS The best-seller list includes two books about money, several about physical fitness, one titled Power! and one called Winning Through Intimidation. There...

MR DOOLEY AND SHUTTLING SOCIALISM (October 1975)

MR. DOOLEY & SHUTTLING SOCIALISM PETER STEINFELS "Well, I see be th' pa-apers," said my friend Martin Dooley imitating his great-granduncle and namesake back in the Sixth Ward, "that Yale...

THE WISDOM OF THE COLUMNIST (September 1975)

THE WISDOM OF THE COLUMNIST PETER STEINFELS Having decided to return to the business of writing a column, I im-mediately began to break out in scru-ples. Was I qualified for such a weighty public...

ETHICS AND FETAL RESEARCH: (May 1975)

ETHICS AND FETAL RESEARCH PETER STEINFELS For new moral problems, a paucity of analysis Last December, eleven members of a National Com-mission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Bio-medical...

WHENCE THE NEW CONSERVATIVES? (April 1974)

WHERE WILL the new conserva- deed, it provided a "neutral" explana- tives go? That is one of...

FROM WATERGATE TO WHERE?: (March 1974)

PRESIDENT Nixon came into office of the federal government. The Ad- with three general ambitions. The ...

AFFIRMING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION (March 1974)

THERE ARE several good reasons mative action." Critics of affirmative for my not writing anything at AFFIRMING ...

JUST WAR THEORY: A QUESTION: (February 1974)

Tt is mockery to speak of the war ¦*¦ in Vietnam as "over"—mockery of those still fighting and dying, still in exile or prison; those left dangling in mourning or dwindling hope for the dead...

THE GOLDWATER MYTH (February 1974)

T HE OTHER day, when Operation Candor was abruptly transformed into Operation Bluster, liberals were disappointed to find not only Gerald Ford but Barry Goldwater voicing the White House line that...

LANCE, SPIRO AND TRE VIGMLANTES: (January 1974)

Question: What do Lance Rentzel ^ and Spiro Agnew have in common? Answer: Both have been, or are about to be, suspended from their occupations by their professional associations. I am not...

BOOKS FOR YOUR STOCKING (December 1973)

T AM disappointed. No one has asked me to prepare a Christmas book list. Throughout the entire year I have been reading assiduously, planning to impress the world with my serious outlook, my...

EVENTS BEYOND MY CONTROL (December 1973)

Mr. James O'Gara Editor, Commonweal 232 Madison Avenue New York, New York, 10016 Dear Jim, I want you to know I am terribly sorry about not having a column to fill the page this week. Please...

MANAGING THE TIGHTENED WORLD (November 1973)

IT'or Americans like myself, to ¦*¦ whom the Depression is a tale our parents told us and the rationing stamps of World War II merely the residue of a memory, the current economic troubles are...

AN OPEN LETTER TO MICHAEL NOVAK (November 1973)

Mr. Michael Novak The Rockefeller Foundation 111 East 50th Street New York, New York Dear Mike, Please forgive me for breaking into the hustle and bustle of that stronghold of the common man...

STARTING ONCE AGAIN (October 1973)

rj E 34th and Broadway, kitty-corner HOTEL McAlpin stands at from Macy's in New York. Meeting there last weekend, along with the New York Metropolitan Shoe Show, some Hong Kong Custom...

REFLECTIONS ON SOVIET DISSENT (October 1973)

T¥7hat makes the resistance of dis™ senting Soviet intellectuals like Andrei D. Sakharov so astonishing is their profound isolation. True, they have their circles of friends, and millions...

TEN YEARS BEFORE THE SCREEN (September 1973)

F O.R THOSE Of the decimal persuasnon, tenth anniversaries are special. The March on Washington, the overthrow of Diem, the assassination of John F. Kennedy--during these months, those...

MYSTERY OF THE MISSING DEMOCRATS (August 1973)

"Well, what's the alternative? Where are the Democrats?" Sooner or later, in most conversations about Watergate, someone asks those questions. They ask them, usually, in response to one of...

THE CASE OF MR. Y (June 1973)

I CAME TO knOW Mr. Y. several years ago. Some tenants in our building had responded to a precipitous rise in the mugging rate by organizing a "watch" by the front door. Mr. Y. helped mount...

Scandal of a Political Philosophy (May 1973)

~6IrI[IHE LORD hath delivered him I I " - ' i n t o my hands," whispered Thomas Huxley to a companion when Bishop Wilberforce, in the course of a famous debate over Darwinian evolution,...

True and False Reconciliation (May 1973)

I G OOD FRIDAY had turned into Holy TRUE Saturday; the all-night vigil at St. Gregory the Great parish in Man- AND FALSE hattan was at its halfway point; and RECONCILIATION Sister Elizabeth...

The New Interiorism (April 1973)

It does not take a particularly keen observer of secular and religious culture to note the change in atmosphere which has recently taken place in those realms. I would characterize it as the...

One Vote for the Hangman (April 1973)

D URING MOST of my life I have been opposed to capital punishment, but the more I think about it, the better idea it seems. One of the obstacles to viewing the question of capital punishment...

HISTORY IS BUNK (March 1973)

T HERE HAVE recently been complaints that young people are not sufficiently interested in history, that they feel the study of the past to be "irrelevant" and with no connection to the...

OF PROS, PRESIDENTS & PATRIARCHS (December 1972)

OF PROS, PRESIDENTS & PATRIARCHS PETER STEI\FELS In the end the people went with the pros. That is the style we fall back on as a nation—whether in football players or gunslingers. And yet...

'LABOR AND THE INTELLECTUALS': An Exchange of Views (November 1972)

an exchange of views 'Labor and the Intellectuals' Washington, D.C. To the Editors: To be told in cold print that Peter Steinfels, when invited in his late teens to have lunch with the...

THE ERA OF AMERICAN RESIGNATION? (October 1972)

THE ERA OF AMERICAN RESIGNATION? PETER STEMFELS ri"*HE war is the most important issue in the election, although it does not seem that many people, maybe not even George McGovern,...

Labor and the Intellectuals (September 1972)

T HE CURIOUS fact that the AFLCIO is refusing to endorse the Presidential candidate who has a 93 percent "correct" voting record by that organization's own scorekeeping may stimulate a new...

THE TRUMAN ANALOGY: ROW VALID? (August 1972)

H ISTORICAL ANALOGIES, a tricky game at any time, has been played with even less imagination than usual in recent weeks. Virtually the only comparison that commentators on Senator McGovern's...

America the Good (July 1972)

T HE MEN at Engine 62-Ladder 32 firehouse in the Bronx were disturbed by what they saw in the paper the other day. Maybe you saw it, too: a picture of five terrified children, one of them...

An Exchange of Views (June 1972)

an exchange o f v i e Politics, Abortion & Fr.-Rep. Drinan St. Louis, Mo. To the Editors: Contrary to Peter Steinfels [Mar. 31], I did not say in my book that Father Robert Drinan...

Peace With Injustice (June 1972)

A s FAn AS the outside world could tell, the only embarrassing moment in the President's trip to Moscow occurred at the ballet when a woman in the audience shouted out, "Freedom in Vietnam!"...

Once Again into the Streets (May 1972)

S OMEBODY SAID that there was going to be a demonstration, a candlelight march down Broadway, and so we zippered the kids' windbreakers and took out the Easter candles and went. You do not...

THE END OF THE WORLD? (May 1972)

T HE END of the world is coming. That, more or less, is the message of several recent reports on the future of the environment, delivered not by the stereotypical figure carrying a sandwich...

Back to the Bombing (April 1972)

O N SUNDAY morning I walked through the park--away from newstands--to Columbia University. The day was definitely going to be on the side of spring in April's war of seasons. At Columbia, at a...

The Mystery of Resistance (April 1972)

W E SEEM to be awash with movies offering Great Thoughts about man--about his behavior under pressure, his elementary violence, his drive to be free. I cannot judge those films I have not...

PRIESTS IN POLITICS (March 1972)

T HE FEBRUARY 3 issue of the English-language edition of L'Osservatore Romano contains an article titled "Priest, Prophet and the Political Party" by the Reverend Donald W. Wuerl, secretary...

THE CASE OF THE IRISH APE (March 1972)

T HE REALIZATION, preposterous as it was, that some people had believed the Irish to be hideously, apishly, ugly first struck me when I was in high school. In the middle of my lavishly...

Women and the 'Feminist Ethic-II (March 1972)

~WoMEN BY and large have not v v been able to challenge the value system of the dominant elite," wrote Mary Daly in the February 4 Commonweal, and certainly it is the dominant elite who have...

WOMEN AND THE 'FEMINIST ETHIC' (February 1972)

T HE TENDENCY for articles on abortion to approach their subject obliquely is understandable. A blunt confrontation of the question--whether, for example, the hundreds of thousands of...

YOUR F.B.I. IN PEACE AND WAR (February 1972)

I ~F E "Confessions" of a former .B.I. agent published by the New York Review o/ Books and prominently reported in some newspapers may revive the debate about whether civil liberties are...

Man of the Year (January 1972)

I T IS ALMOST impossible for a liberal to assess President Nixon's performance fairly. The blood feud is too long. Besides, you don't have to be liberal to loathe Richard M. Nixon. There is...

The Choice of Wars (January 1972)

HE END of the Indian-Pakistani war did not mean the end of bloodshed in Bangladesh. That is a terrible fact, a maddening one, and yet it is no surprise. What seems to be more of a surprise is...

THE TOY IN YOUR FUTURE (December 1971)

T HERE ARE probably hundreds of classic children s stories in which the hero is a toymaker. My favorite was The Great Quillow, a lesser known tale by James Thurber, in which Quillow the...

THE RETURN OF THE HERO (November 1971)

F ROM k distance we could see a crowd mdling around the door of the auditorium, and we wondered whether we would get seats. Up close we reahzed that it was a picket-line. The picketers marched...

THE UP-TO-DATE CONSERVATIVE (November 1971)

I T WAS just about at this point in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, a year and a half ago, that I predicted G. Harrold Carswell would be approved for a seat on the Supreme Court....

BEHIND THE POLITICAL DEBATE (November 1971)

F ROM TIME to time, thinkers try to reduce political differences to matters of principle. Liberals, it is said, believe in the perfectibility of man and the fulfillment of tbe individual...

THE COMPLEXITY OF ACHESON (October 1971)

T was I s the early '50s that I gradually learned the truth that every little boy and girl is born a liberal or a conservative, and that I had been born a liberal. Being a liberal, at the...

An End to Serenity (October 1971)

R ECENTLY I have read several efforts to explain the present state of the American church and how it got that way. None of them considers an extremely important episode, one pointed up by the...

The Headless Horseman Rides Again (October 1971)

HE front page of this morning's paper carried a headline, "H.R.A. Sees Relief Down By Only 4% Under Work Law," which is quite possibly undecipherable to those who do not share in the...

How We Perceive the Enemy (October 1971)

nounced an investigation that would be limited to the causes of the uprising, and thus presumably exclude the crucial five days and his own role in them. On Tuesday he announced a committee to...

JACKSON AND THE BIG LIE (September 1971)

OENATOR HENRY M. JACKSON ^ is runnng for President. In other words, this is no time to expect him to be scrupulously respectful of the truth. Especially when faced with the opportunity to...

NOTES ON THE PENTAGON PAPERS (July 1971)

A few notes on the Pentagon ]V©TES ©IV THE Such accusations> lt is countered, Papers: WBM7"%TrW1 /%...

THE CATCH 22 OF WORLD POVERTY (June 1971)

HHHERE IS a theory, rooted in •* Marxism, that the wealth of the industrialized depends necessarily upon the exploitation of the under- developed world. There is another the- ory (the two...

THE COOLING OF THE INTELLECTUALS (May 1971)

.:.:.¦, ¦'.•.».,•;».»" THE COOLING OF THE INTELLECTUALS The case of Commentary and The New York Review of Books PETER STEINFELS Hidden in the sematic fog so beloved to New...

RESEARCHING THE PARABLES (May 1971)

Two psychologists . . . recently re- staged the [Good Samaritan parable] —updated, carefully observed, even photographed. . . .What determined whether a man stopped to help—or passed by?...

WHY I WENT TO JAIL (April 1971)

WHY I WENT TO JAIL PETER STE1ISFELS There is a bumper sticker which reads, "All our boys in Vietnam are P.O.W.'s. Bring the troops home!" That play on words illuminates a reality...

CALLEY AND THE PUBLIC CONSCIENCE (April 1971)

CALLEY AND THE PUBLIC CONSCIENCE PETER STE1NFELS one lives today in the rubble and ruins which were once Mylai. The survivors live nearby where sev- eral weeks ago they mournfully...

THE PRESS, PRESIDENT & PENTAGON (April 1971)

THE PRESS, PRESIDENT & PENTAGON PETER STE11SFELS WfEEK AFTER week I find my- " self drawn to writing about the media rather than the message. The reason is obvious. For all our...

OF BUDGETS & MEDIA (March 1971)

OF BUDGETS & MEDIA PETER STEINFELS T ast February 20 the National Ur- *"* ban Coalition presented a "Coun- ter-Budget" for the United States. That was not just an advertising...

ORWELLIANS LEFT AND RIGHT (March 1971)

ORWELLIANS LEFT AND RIGHT PETER STEINFELS is A connection between the Orwellian language which the gov- ernment, without it seems even a shred of self-consciousness, increas- ingly...

WHAT SHOULD LINDSAY DO?: (March 1971)

WHAT SHOULD LINDSAY DO? PETER STEINFELS HAVING READ in The Real Ma jority that the key to elections these days is the 47-year-old housewife whose husband is a machinist in Dayton, Ohio, I...

SURVIVING IN NEW YORK (February 1971)

SURVIVING IN NEW YORK PETER STEINFELS In the state of New York, Sunday, February 7, was Anti-Smut Day. Hardly anybody noticed. In fact, on Sunday, February 7- Anti-Smut Day, officially...

WHAT MOONWALK? WHAT MOON? (February 1971)

WHAT MOONWALK? WHAT MOON? PETER STEINFELS A month ago I noted a letter from educator John Holt in Change maza-zine, and something Holt mentioned has been nagging me ever since. He had read a news...

A NEW PEACE MOVEMENT (February 1971)

A NEW PEACE MOVEMENT PETER STEINFELS WE NEED A NEW peace move-ment. We do not need a new peace movement because the old one failed or because it must be replaced. Whether or not the old peace...

ACADEMIC FREEDOM, ALIVE AND . . . (February 1971)

THIS COLUMN seems to have encountered several boobytraps in the past weeks. Hardly had I sent "The Day They Stole the Spiro" to the printer when the Hoover charges which inspired it were transmuted...

BEYOND DR SPOCK (January 1971)

BEYOND DOCTOR SPOCK PETER STEINFELS APPLE PIE may still have a future as a non-controversial staple of American politics, but motherhood? Don't bet on it. Quite apart from issues like population...

SHOWING THE FLAG: (December 1970)

SHOWING THE FLAG PETER STEINFELS On November 15, Veteran's Day, I went to see the American flag desecrated. The Desecration was taking place at Judson - Memorial Church in Greenwich Village, and...

LAURA'S BASTILLE OF SILENCE: (December 1970)

LAURA'S BASTILLE OF SILENCE PETER STEINFELS LAURA'S BIRTH was not aus-picious. Her mother, drunk, collapsed on the street and was rushed to a hospital. When Laura was one year old, her mentally...

CRITICS' CHOICES FOR CHRISTMAS (December 1970)

CRITICS' CHOICES FOR CHRISTMAS BOOKS William Pfaff The book I read with the greatest pleasure during 1970 was undoubtedly Saul Bellow's novel, Mr. Sammler's Planet (Viking, $6.95). Its supreme...

RULES FOR INTELLECTUAL EXPERTS (December 1970)

RULES FOR INTELLECTUAL EXPERTS PETER STEINFELS IN TERMS OF keeping track of our intellectuals, the United States has fallen sadly behind, say, a nation like the Soviet Union. In recent months...

NATIONAL REVIEW'S LITTLE WAR (November 1970)

NATIONAL REVIEW'S LITTLE WAR PETER STEINFELS NOW THAT it is the only maga-zine represented in the United States Senate, the National Review deserves special attention. The National Review is an...

RALLY 'ROUND RADICLIBS (November 1970)

RALLY 'ROUND, RADICLIRS PETER STEIIMFELS The first task in creating an effective bogeyman is choosing the name, and it is interesting that Spiro Agnew chose "radical-liberal." It is interesting,...

CHANGING YOUR SPOTS: (November 1970)

CHANGING YOUR SPOTS PETER STEINFELS NO, THE campaign was not all a waste. It produced, for example, the following statement from one gubernatorial candidate: "I worked for a long time to get to...

PICK ANY COUNTRY: (October 1970)

PICK ANY COUNTRY PETER STEINFELS SUPPOSE someone told you to name a country where the richest one percent of the population held 28 percent of all wealth, while the poorer 50 percent of the...

THE PRESIDENT'S PROPOSALS (October 1970)

THE PRESIDENT'S PROPOSALS ANYONE AS fiercely opposed as I am to the present intervention of the U.S. in Vietnam does well frankly to admit his difficulty in evaluating not only Mr. Nixon's latest...

THE MYTH OF THE RAD DECADE (October 1970)

THE MYTH OF THE RAD DECADE PETER STEINFELS THE MYTH of the Red Decade has recently been laid to rest. Not that everyone had ever fully accepted the myth, the notion that almost all liberals in...

BOOKS: (October 1970)

BOOKS The sartorial shagginess of St. John the Baptist, hippies and Nuer prophets Purity and Banger MARY DOUGLAS Penguin, $1.45 Natural Symbols MARY DOUGLAS Pantheon, $5.95 PETER...

IS SCIENCE STOPPABLE?: (October 1970)

IS SCIENCE STOPPABLE? PETER STEINFELS SEVERAL weeks ago, in the New York Times, sociologist Amitai Etzioni commented on the appeals of noted scientists for accelerated national efforts in...

THE R&D FACTOR (September 1970)

AT IS AN oversimplification, but for the moment a useful one, to say that social scientists concerned with public policy fall into two schools. The first school feels that the major obstacle...

I WAS A CATHOLIC FOR THE PAX (September 1970)

I Was a Cathaiic Far the PAX "As you know, the real impetus to the massive infiltration of the Catholic Church . . . was . . . the second Vatican Council which provided the opportunity for...

THE GREAT 1972 ELECTIONS RUMOR (August 1970)

The Great 1972 Election Miuwnar The rumor has it that the Rand Corporation made a study for the government on the feasibility of cancelling the 1972 national elections. The rumor, says Mr. Daniel...

REREADING THE 'PHILADELPHIA MANIFESTO' (July 1970)

Rereadiny the 'Phii-adetphia Manifesto' How does one talk about social issues so as to express the full complexity of reality and yet not rule out the wide audience which is implied in the ideal of...

KERENSKY & BRUNING (June 1970)

Frown the Past: Kerensky & Briining Kerensky once spoke to a Russian history class I was attending. I don't remember what he said. As though it mattered. He had been saying the same thing for...

Andrew Greeley, Divine Sociologist (June 1970)

Andrew Greeley* Divine Sociologist The May 31 New York Times Book Review contains a review of Francine du Plessix Gray's Divine Disobedience. It is a very different sort of review than the one...

MR. DOOLEY IN PEACE AND WAR (May 1970)

Mr. Dooley in Peace and War (With apologies to Finley Peter Dunne.) "Well sir," said Mr. Dooley, "did ye r-read iv Mr. Hinry Kissing'r's sinsational milit'ry rivalaytion?" "I did not," said...

LAST TRAIN FOR PEACEFUL POLITICS (May 1970)

The Last Train For Peaeeful Politics Like night winds in a haunted house, the most familiar phrases take on new, terrible meanings these days. Sunday evening, staccato voice from the radio:...

AMERICA AND THE NEW BISMARCKS (May 1970)

America and the New Bismarcks I have not read the little book which has sent the Congressional jackasses braying after Supreme Court Justice Douglas. I glanced over it and was unimpressed....

NEITHER RAIN, NOR SNOW, NOR LOUSY WAGES (April 1970)

... Jtain* Nor Snotv Nor Lousy JVages It is in the nature of the case that as I write this I cannot know the outcome of the postal workers' strike, and that as you read this you will know...

SCANLAN'S MONTHLY AND OTHER DIVERSIONS (March 1970)

Scanlan's Monthly And Other Diversions "We must be fiercely candid about who owns and controls this new magazine. . . ." Thus begins the tub-thumping, back-patting manifesto which introduces...

REMEMBRANCE OF CONSPIRACY PAST (March 1970)

Remembrance of for best college writing one year. "A smart fellow like you could do all right...

ANYONE FOR ECOLOGICAL THEOLOGY? (February 1970)

Anyone for nature, giving him the word to be fruitful and mul- ...

FATHER SCHALL AGAINST THE WALL (February 1970)

tween the New Left and the "dreariest old Nazism." Father Schall Father Schall considers this...

CARSWELL IDEOLOGY & THE SUPREME COURT (February 1970)

entangled with several faulty analogies. Mr. Nixon, Carswell, Ideology & for example, pleaded that...

SOME FACTS FOR THE STATE OF THE UNION (January 1970)

Some Facts for the 37 percent found that, in this case, it would be "more right to follow orders."...

THE TALK OF THE TOWN (January 1970)

PETER STEINFELS fifteen minutes a day. That usually The Talk of the...

DECODING THE DECADE (January 1970)

Decoding the Decade, commitments scattered around the world. And there were hidden costs, too. The...

A CHRISTMAS QUARREL: (December 1969)

Christmas Quarreling Peace-on-earth-good-will-to-men indeed! It was part of that general Protestant...

STIFF UPPER LIP OVER A MASSACRE: (December 1969)

a civil war. The U.S. is acting as an occupying power Stiff Upper Lip among a people, a...

DEFENDING FREEDOM, PREVENTING BLOODBATHS: (December 1969)

Defending Freedom. "I remember this man distinctly, holding a small child in one arm and another...

A TALE OF TWO SPEECHES (November 1969)

There were, however, some things the noble Spiro A Tale forgot to...

THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH: (November 1969)

The President's hasty, premature, rash, without sufficient deliberation. No one favors precipitate...

THE SCREEN: (November 1969)

stacks of items within his department. There are billions A THEOLOGY OF WIFE SWAPPING of dollars to allocate and account for, and tens of thou-...

DEFENSE POLICY AND THE PRUDES (June 1969)

criticism of Mayor Richard Daley and used the occasion to salute Pittsburgh's mayor as "my good friend, Joe Barr." The incident pointed up the sometimes strange working alliance between the...

THE STRANGE WORLD OF G. WARREN NUTTER (April 1969)

for the independents, also showed poor judgment. This is particularly significant because the committeeman there is George Dunne, president of the Cook County Board and heir apparent to the...

A Nuclear Sarajevo (March 1969)

_9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 0 0 _9 _9 NON-PROLIFERATION: TWO VIEWS The Senate debates ratification Disarming but not disarming BETTY PILKINGTON When Washington at long last...

The Exception Is the Rule (February 1969)

change made by the Council, and its establishment is significant as a dramatic illustration that the bishops do in fact share with the Pope in the government of the Church. It is true that Pope...

FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1968: (July 1968)

FRENCH REVOLUTION 1968 The North American delegation proposed to the 1889 Paris Congress of the Second Socialist International that the first day of May be a self-established workers' holiday...

MANNING THE BARRICADES: (May 1986)

MANNING THE PARIS BARRICADES PETER STEINFELS Not since 1934, when the fascist leagues and the Action Franchise tried to storm the National Assembly, had Paris seen anything like this. Not even...

SPAIN TIGHTENS SQUEEZE: (April 1968)

Spain Tightens Squeeze on Intellectuals Alfonso Comin is an engineer, professor of sociology, author of a highly praised book on the underdevelopment of Andalusia, journalist and, according to Le...

FREE WORLD FASCISM: (March 1968)

FREE WORLD FASCISM South Korea purges its intellectuals CZARINA WILPERT AND PETER STEINFELS Until the Pueblo affair there had been little American public concern for recent events in South Korea....

LE TUBE BOOB (February 1968)

He was sentenced to 18 years at hard labor in the infamous Poulo Condore Island prison. He did not need to serve that long. When Diem was overthrown on Nov. 1st, 1963, Phan Trong Chinh was freed. A...

LETTER FROM AN EDITOR (December 1967)

LETTER FROM AN EDITOR A reply to William V. Shannon • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • PETER STEINFELS Pleasant surprise. My airmail copy of Commonweal is in the mailbox. Back upstairs for a...

CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY-R.I.P. (December 1967)

CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY- R.I.P. Not attempted murder this time but suicide PETER STEINFELS • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Christian democracy in France is dead. On Sept. 13 the executive...

THE CASE FOR WITHDRAWAL: (September 1967)

"There are few debts more heavy than the one America now owes the Vietnamese. Are we going to pay by...

OH, WHAT A LOVELY DIALOGUE (January 1967)

4 Ml. WHAT A LOVELY DIALOGUE The Catholic Marxism of Slant PETER STEINFELS "All right, Steinfels," began Mahoney at lunch last week, "how about a little Catholic-Marxist dialogue?" "Well,...

THE U. S. AND FRANCE (September 1966)

disposing of food surpluses that depress commodity prices. There is logic in the high priority which the new program designates for those countries which are increasing their own production...

A RESPONSE TO OGLESBY (January 1966)

How should we judge a revolution? A RESPONSE TO OGLESBY PETER STEINFELS By the time Carl Oglesby took the rostrum of the March on Washington for Peace in Vietnam, the afternoon seemed...

PEACE AND REALITY (March 1965)

for the Study of Democratic Institutions for over a million dollars. The ambiance of cash, large foundations, think centers, old age and prestige, all detached, all elegant, all prepared, was...

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