Crisis
• Vol. 21 • No. 3 • March 2003 •
Features:
Fifteen
to Life: 15 Ways to Fix the Criminal Justice System
The American
penal system is in shambles. But the situation is not beyond
hope. Eve Tushnet offers 15 revolutionary ways to reform
the criminal justice system—from a Christian perspective.
Ignoring
the Obvious: The Unreality of American Catholicism
Russell Shaw says the cancer in the Church in America is
one of “unreality.” In this article, he shows
you how unreality has corrupted the Church at every level
and what event set this self-deception in motion.
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Civilization
and Culture at War
Alice von Hildebrand sounds the alarm, showing what tragedy results
when civilization overtakes culture.
Responding
to Michael Rose
Brian
Saint-Paul takes a close look at Michael Rose’s lengthy
response to Crisis’s exposé of his work on the American
College of Louvain. Does Rose make his case?
Catholic
Opinion by the Numbers Crisis
Recently sponsored a national poll of Catholic positions on everything
from Iraq to abortion. Deal W. Hudson gives you the surprising
results and tells you what it might mean for the future of the
Church in America.
Books - Arts - Culture:
Poem
“Had I Had Had Shakespeare as a Student” by Samuel
Maio
Unanimously
Wrong
Terry Teachout laughs at Hollywood’s latest liberal screed—and
takes a few swings at the French along
the way.
Michael
Tippett: A Child of His Time
Robert R. Reilly examines the mixed work of this ambitious British
composer.
Through Hell
and Back, Again
Robert Royal looks at the newest—and best—translation
of Dante’s Inferno.
The
Abolition of Man.
Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics
by Leon
R. Kass
Old
Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc
by Joseph
Pearce
Catholic
Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democracy
by
Jay P. Corrin
A
Small Treatise on the Great Virtues
by André
Comte-Sponville
Baudolino
by Umberto Eco.
Departments:
Letters
Columns:
Sed
Contra
Deal W. Hudson
Late
Edition
Michael M. Uhlmann
These
Parables
George W. Rutler
Sense
& Nonsense
James V. Schall
End
Notes
Ralph McInerny
Seeing
Things
Robert Royal
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