Writer and Editor

James Nuechterlein

1 article 1996

James Nuechterlein is a writer and editor who served as editor of First Things, the journal of religion and public life. He contributed commentary to The Weekly Standard in 1996.

SERIOUS NONSENSE

July 29, 1996 · Blog

It is difficult to mount a searching critique of liberal culture -- as Willard Gaylin and Bruce Jennings set out to do in The Perversion of Autonomy (Free Press, 270 pages, $ 25) -- when you are determined to say nothing that any liberal could take as critical. The authors, both associated with the…