The Issue at a Glance

After the Interregnum (10.1007/s12129-014-9452-1)

Patrick J. Deneen, University of Notre Dame

In the first entry of this issue’s special section, “God and Guns,” Patrick J. Deneen finds that both sides in the latest stage of the Culture Wars “represent a betrayal of the proper mission of higher education”: the formation of students for “lives of responsible liberty grounded in a deep encounter with…the cultural inheritance of the West.” This development is “directly related” to a “century-long process of disaffiliation” of America’s colleges and universities “from their various religious foundations, identities, and commitments.”

Ms. Catalano’s Complaint (10.1007/s12129-014-9454-z)

David French, American Center for Law and Justice

In his “God and Guns” entry, David French examines the recent wave of cases in which campus administrators have demanded that specific Christian groups forego religious criteria when selecting leaders, “thus perverting