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A Man and His Legacy 0
- May/June 2016
- May 1, 2016
On February 13, 2016, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead while on a hunting trip in Texas. He had apparently died from natural causes during his sleep. He was a month shy of his eightieth birthday. The Scalia family declined an autopsy, and his remains were immediately returned to Washington, D.C., for
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Much Ado About a Little Covering 0
- May/June 2016
- May 1, 2016
The niqab has entered the realm of law and politics in Canada. At issue is the question of what Islam requires in the way of female garb. The main terms to be understood here are the hijab and niqab. The hijab is a garment that covers the hair, at a minimum—perhaps also the neck and
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Ecological Sin 0
- March/April 2016
- March 1, 2016
The late years of the nineteenth century and even the early ones of the twentieth were filled with the promise of a better, more hopeful future. “Therefore, gentlemen,” declared Werner von Siemens (founder of the company that still bears his name) in the late nineteenth century, “we will not be shaken in our belief that
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One Great Objective 0
- March/April 2016
- March 1, 2016
Roger Williams, after his banishment from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, had but one great objective to which he devoted the rest of his life, and that was to establish a government in America that might become the model for future generations, and also to create an asylum for the oppressed and persecuted of every religious
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