The Harvard Salient: October 13,1999: Cover Stories

St. Paulitics
Harvard Catholics and their romance with the Left

By Bronwen McShea
Associate Editor

The Roman Church, said G.K. Chesterton, " is from the first a thing holding its own position and point of view, quite apart from the accidents and anarchies of the age. That is why it deals blows impartially right and left, at the pessimism of the Manichean or the optimism of the Pelagian." [more...]

Golden Graham
America's Greatest Evangelist at Harvard

By Jonas Akins
Staff Writer

The placards outside Memorial Church made the relatively plain announcement for a week before the event. "Billy Graham, Evangelist"read the broadsheet. Were it not for the name of that week's preacher, the description of his position would have been woefully insufficient to excite the spiritual interest of the average passerby. Previous announcements have read like entries in Burke's Peerage: The Right Reverend and Right Honourable Lord Runcie of Cuddesdon, 102nd Archbishop of Canterbury and High Steward to the University of Cambridge, England or as a litany of academic appointments: The Reverend William H. Willimon, Dean of the University Chapel and Professor of Christian Ministry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. But Billy Graham is different. [more...]

Stars of David
Judaism and the Conservative Revival

By Moshe Spinowitz
Circulation Manager

In March 1997, David Gelernter, Yale Computer Science professor, Unabomber survivor, and conservative commentator wrote a provocative article entitled "How the Intellectuals Took Over (and What To Do About It)."In his discussion of the Leftist coup launched by the intellectuals, Gelernter offered his readers a clue as to how to trace this bloodless coup. "One dramatic sign was the big influx of Jews. The intellectualizing trend went a lot farther than bringing in Jews, of course, but Jews are a dye marker that allows us to trace a new class of people as it moves into the system." [more...]