Brimstone America
May 26, 2003 · Jean Bethke Elshtain, Magazine, Books and Arts
Hellfire Nation
Political Philosopher and Ethicist
Jean Bethke Elshtain
2 articles 2002–2003
Jean Bethke Elshtain was a renowned political philosopher and ethicist who served as the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School. A prolific author and public intellectual, she wrote extensively on issues of democracy, war, religion, and family life. She contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2002–2003 with pieces exploring American culture and society.
Little Modern Women
July 29, 2002 · Jean Bethke Elshtain, Magazine, Books and Arts
OF ALL THE BENIGHTED CUSTOMS of the past, none is viewed with more condescension in these enlightened days than the practice of purging offensive passages from literary classics. We get the word "bowdlerize" from the English physician Thomas Bowdler, whose 1818 edition of Shakespeare omitted "those…