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Leon Kass is a medical doctor, biologist, ethicist, philosopher, and teacher. After decades as a professor at the University of Chicago, he accepted responsibility for chairing President Bush's Council on [...]

None seems to know quite what to make of he foreign policy of George W. Bush. Realists attack him for his excessive idealism, but idealists want noting to do with [...]

I ARRIVED at The Public Interest in the spring of 1994. Irving Kristol would soon, in an excess of modesty, declare neoconservatism a generational phenomenon, now absorbed into a larger [...]

NEOCONSERVATISM has become the topic of the day. But does neoconservatism really exist, and if so what is it? What exactly is 'new' in neoconservatism, and how does it differ [...]

A day committed to the honor of Dr. Martin Luther King is a day committed to the celebration and honor of the American Constitution and those who believed in it [...]

A PUZZLING aspect of religion in America today is that there is both less and more of it than 40 or 50 years ago. Gone is the recitation of the [...]

Recent breakthroughs in biotechnology have led to all kinds of speculation about America's future in the twenty-first century, the 'biotech century.' The discussion has been lively and entertaining, even informative [...]

Not too long ago, a predominantly Muslim city-state of about 2 million was invaded by its more powerful neighbor to the north. The aggressor had some historical claims and ties [...]

Americans seem ready to embrace something extraordinary: a practice called assisted death whereby a physician helps an ailing patient kill himself. 'Kill' is a harsh word, and advocates understandably use [...]

In the beginning it was something only academics talked and wrote about, though it was something most everyone was aware of. I am referring to the disappearance of community or [...]

The new American individualism is eroding civil society and community life. This individualism finds fulfillment in the expression of personal idiosyncrasies rather than self-restraint and threatens to destroy the informal organizations which are the basis of democratic institutions., In the beginning it was something only academics talked and wrote about, though it was something most everyone was aware of. I am referring to the disappearance of community or [...]

Just as Tocqueville studied America over one hundred fifty years ago in order to discover lessons from which his fellow countrymen might profit, so we Americans today might return the [...]

IN THE immediate wake of September 11 and the rise of Islamic terrorism as America's deadliest foe, some commentators predicted a retreat from expressions of religiosity here in the United [...]

The best known anecdote about Isaiah Berlin refers to the occasion during World War II when his work at the British embassy in Washington caught the attention of Winston Churchill. [...]

In 1982, the journalist Ken Auletta defined the question of the underclass: how do we explain why 'violence, arson, hostility, and welfare dependency rose during a time when unemployment dropped, [...]

THAT the American people are a religious people is plain. But it is just as plain that they do not want clerics dictating their politics or politicians dictating their religion [...]

A little over a year ago, President Clinton vetoed the first partial-birth abortion bill. The bill would have made it illegal for doctors to perform a procedure in which a [...]

Adam Wolfson: In The Republic, Socrates suggests, tongue firmly in cheek, that rulers should be bred scientifically, just as dogs, cocks, and horses are. The proposal was meant to be [...]

ARGUMENTS over public policies have a way of taking on a life of their own, coming to exist almost without reference to the policies themselves. Before a policy has been [...]

HANS S. REINDERS. The Future of the Disabled in Liberal Society. UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS. 280 PAGES. $35.00 STUNNING DEVELOPMENTS in the field of biotech have lately filled the [...]

THE philosopher Karl Lowith once pointed out that there be no such thing as a 'Christian gentleman.' What he meant was that the adjective and noun in question describe two [...]

Why Kosovo but not Kuwait NOT TOO LONG AGO, a predominantly Muslim city-state of about 2 million was invaded by its more powerful neighbor to the north. The aggressor had [...]

NO ONE--not even those who supported it from the beginning--can be entirely happy with our war in Kosovo. Our immediate goal was to put a halt to Serbia's brutal treatment [...]

Politics and Passion: Toward a More Egalitarian Liberalism by Michael Walzer Yale. 208pp. $25.00 LIBERAL POLITICAL theory today is in a state of crisis. It is divided into a dozen [...]