Compassion's Edge RELIGION / Religion An at times heart-catching departure

An at times heart-catching departure from the polemics and social criticism that have made Horowitz one of our most controversial public intellectuals

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Despite attempts by some in the new ANC leadership to airbrush out his role

this flexibility of definition helped to ensure the longevity of the term: women were punished as scolds as late as the early nineteenth century

the Judeo-Christian tradition has been the West’s most effective curb on these dangerous defects of human nature

Compassion's Edge RELIGION / Religion An at times heart-catching departureCompassion's Edge examines the language of fellow feelingpity, compassion, and charitable carethat flourished in France in the period from the Edict of Nantes in 1598, which established some degree of religious toleration, to the official breakdown of that toleration with the Revocation of the Edict in 1685. This is not, however, a story about compassion overcoming difference but one of compassion reinforcing division: the seventeenth century texts of