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Weekly Review

The Vatican proclaimed, not for the first time, that the Roman Catholic Church was the one true Church of Christ and that worshippers of false gods were in a “gravely…

Weekly Review

by Roger D. Hodge,

Albert Einstein’s theory that a massive spinning object will twist space-time around it received support from X-rays emanating from three neutron stars detected by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, a…

Data from the Galileo spacecraft yielded evidence that Europa, Jupiter’s second moon, may have salty liquid oceans beneath its icy shell, increasing the likelihood of finding life there. Austrian scientists…

Weekly Review

by Roger D. Hodge,

The Motion Picture Association of America succeeded in convincing a federal judge in Manhattan that publishing or linking to a free computer program that allows people to play DVDs on…

Weekly Review

by Roger D. Hodge,

Republicans formally nominated George W. Bush as presidential candidate at their convention in Philadelphia; a display of dark-skinned speakers elicited much comment from journalists who noticed the contrast with rank-and-file…

Weekly Review

by Roger D. Hodge,

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat failed to meet President Bill Clinton’s deadline for making peace in the Middle East; Clinton declared the summit over and…

Blood on the tracks

by Mark Slouka,

Does senseless death reveal God, or His absence?

Beyond Belief

by Fenton Johnson,

A skeptic searches for an American faith

An American yearning

by Peter Marin,

Seeking cures for freedom's terrors

Secularism’s blind faith

by Peter Marin,

Onward, Christian statisticians

by Harper’s Staff,

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Weekly Review

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Blood on the tracks

Beyond Belief

An American yearning

Secularism’s blind faith

Onward, Christian statisticians

December 1993

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