Taking Sides
Steinfels, Peter
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...
...Not the specifics of treaties or the size of the delegations, but the political conditions which allow leaders to negotiate is something he believes the U.S...
...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 separation in American politics...
...is now expending on the Middle East...
...The essays are ushered onstage with a number of brief but provocative introductions and, at one point, even with some of Harrington's own poetry...
...can help create...
...Part of the argument has been that a stand against permissive abortion laws is based on genuinely pro-life suppositions and does not imply a punitive sexual morality...
...Instead, because of the highly visible attacks of several prominent bishops, the Catholic church appeared to be reactionary rather than progressive, and failed to celebrate the history-making candidacy of the first woman ever to be nominated by a major party to high national office...
...The Sadat visit to Jerusalem made the Camp David negotiations possible...
...In Brief TAKING SIDES: THE EDUCATION OF A MILITANT MIND, by Michael Harrington...
...By any measure, they are grossly underrepresented in the halls of power in this country...
...The fruit of that experience is found in a Foreign Affairs article (Winter 1985/86) and in a new book, I s L0uis n/tJ r itp Ig e010gitaI tubtr Doctor o! Philosophy and Master of Arts in i t0rital t!je010gp Master of Arts in religi0u ztul iez additional information...
...Church/world watch I (Continued from page 40) eral major positions in the U.S...
...A set of rules for ensuring minimum social order" is a fine ambition for lawmakers...
...the opposition to the war in Vietnam...
...Michael Harrington has brought together twenty-five of the many essays he has written over the last three decades...
...In this context, the Democratic party's nomination of Ferraro as the first female vicepresidential candidate represented a significant advance in the struggle for political equality...
...government...
...It will take more attention and activism than the U.S...
...LOUIS, MISSOURI 63108-3395 The Other Walls: The Politics of the Arab-Israeli Peace Process [American Enterprise Institute, $17.95, $9.95 paper, 177 pp...
...JACK CLARK Commonweal: 58...
...Contrary to Carlin, it often does take courage to be publicly supportive of gay rights . . . . Carlin is absolutely right that you can't separate legislation from its social context...
...I believe Saunders should be read and heeded...
...the depoliticization of the novel and the hidden utopianism of Disneyland -- the topics illustrate both stages in Harrington's political engagement and recurring objects of his concern...
...Among those rules can be prohibitions of discrimination against homosexuals...
...So has Commonweal...
...In the article Saunders distinguishes between diplomatic negotiations and the political process which makes diplomacy possible...
...Tying legislative questions into the questions of "the inner life, quest for perfection" calls that distinction into question...
...Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, $16.95, 278 pp...
...At the outset of 1986 Saunders sees a modest but crucial U.S...
...Unfortunately for him, you also can't separate the social context from what legislation actually says . . . . Carlin has argued forcefully in the past on the abortion issue...
...Saunders is closer to Friedman than Ajami...
...If we situate the Ferraro candidacy within the context of women's continued exclusion from American politics, we may appreciate the seriousness of the bishops' error during the 1984 campaign...
...Two of the essays originally appeared in Commonweal...
...role in creating the political setting for diplomacy...
...While women are a majority (53 percent) of the population, they hold only 14 percent of state legislative seats, 4 percent of gubernatorial posts, and only 5 percent of congressional seats...
...The viability of democratic socialism, both here and overseas...
...BOX B ST...
...poverty in America...
...J. BRYAN HEHIR Correspondence (Continued from page 34) gay-baiting remains alive and well...
...the legacy of the New Left...
...Deciding what is moral can and should be left to a broader culture, including bishops and generally eloquent columnist-legislators...
...he believes stalemate in the region is not benign...
...Were the American Catholic hierarchy fully committed to the struggle for equality and equity for women, I suspect they would have refrained from the excesses of a partisan, single-issue attack on Ferraro...
Vol. 113 • January 1986 • No. 2
