September/October 2000

Op. Cit.0

Affronted I found the remark by a reader in your "Op. Cit." January/February issue almost amusing: "I pray that the supreme court of Alabama will rule against Judge Roy Moore and force him to remove the Protestant version of the Ten Commandments–an affront to Jews and Catholics–from his courtroom wall. I can see that the

Obiter 0

For Aristotle the propositional calculus of negation (if p, then not not-p) was an "ultimate belief . . . the starting point of all other axioms" (Metaphysics). It's the simplest proposition of formal logic: something cannot be true without its contrary, its negation, being false. For Aristotle this truth was too basic for demonstration. Negation

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Anthony told me about the routine: he was stripped naked, his hands and ankles were lashed together, a pole was threaded between his ankles, and he was hoisted up to hang head down. Then they beat the soles of his feet, sometimes for hours, until they were swollen and finally insensitive to pain. He told

Older and Wiser 0
- September/October 2000
- September 1, 2000
Religious Right watchdogs may remember the flap in late 1996 and early 1997 over a symposium in Richard John Neuhaus's journal First Things. I argued in the pages of Liberty (September/October 1997) that two constituencies of what could be termed broadly the Religious Right were demonstrating very different loyalties. Neuhaus and his fellow Christian neo-
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Bubble-Zone Freedom 0
- September/October 2000
- September 1, 2000
The young woman, like so many others before her, brushes past the older woman on the sidewalk, averting her eyes from a sign with a baby's picture and the words "Why, Mom–When I Have So Much Love to Give?" "We have only about seven seconds to try to make a contact with them," says 52
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The Faithful Prey 0
- September/October 2000
- September 1, 2000
These people were talking about Philip Harmon, a genial salesman from Camano Island, Washington. Unfortunately, their experience was shared by hundreds of other churchgoers. They were all mistaken in their judgment of this "good" man. Harmon was a "crook," who stole more than $30 million from several hundred investors. Many of his victims were in
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