Single Issues: Essays on the Crucial Social Questions

Abortion, feticide, euthanasia, homosexuality, pornography, sex education, public prayer, “secular humanism”—these are among the “social issues” that have become the most controversial political issues in America today. Joseph Sobran writes about all of them (and much more) in this book. Now considered one of the nation’s most brilliant critics (William F. Buckley, Jr. HAS called Sobran “unquestionably the wittiest, most trenchant yet, finally, lyrical—moralist to have appeared in my time”) he has been writing many of his finest essays for The Human Life Review since it began in 1975. They demonstrate a broad range of knowledge, imagination, and penetrating insight that has brought Sobran acclaim even from those who do not agree with his “strong opinions, strongly held.” This is his first published collection of essays.