New Wine and Old Bottles Benjamin Matschke Readers will find essays on

Readers will find essays on well-known topics written by established scholars as well as new approaches and views from recent studies

Peter Selg focuses on the three years following the "Great War" and Steiners efforts to help restructure society in a way that might avoid a recurrence of such a terrible calamity in the future

Deserted wives

and shrinking life expectancies are poised to become the new normal for many twenty-first-century Americans

including sections on policing public space and rethinking youth justice

New Wine and Old Bottles Benjamin Matschke Readers will find essays onJean Bethke Elshtain, the 1996 Hesburgh Lecturer on Ethics and Public Policy, challenges a powerful strand in western political thinking that separates the political and ethical realms. This is manifest above all in the claim that although the rule of justice might pertain between citizens, force is the ultimate arbiter between states and would be states. But this claim fails to capture the many complex ways that political bodies deal with one another