Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

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1984 (1984). This song, which I have posted twice before, is 31 years old and still as fresh as a daisy, at least to me. I know that some Van Halen fans hated the song, because it is heavy on synthesizers and not so heavy on guitar. I've never shared this sentiment. I was hooked by the song immediately, back when I lived in Tucson. I love when the bass guitar kicks in at :15. The lead guitar starting at 2:16 is amazing, but we've come to expect that from Eddie Van Halen, who is a legend in his own time. The best part of the song, in my opinion, is the swirling keyboard between 2:31 and 3:04. It gives me chills even today. What an incredible composition.

Aquinas's theological approach to natural law primarily presents it as a participation in the eternal law. This fact has helped to mislead many into supposing that natural law must be understood as a divine imperative. Of course, Aquinas holds that God's will is prior to the natural law, since the natural law is an aspect of human existence and man is a free creation of God. But Aquinas does not describe natural law as eternal law passively received in man; he describes it rather as a participation in the eternal law. This participation is necessary precisely insofar as man shares the grand office of providence in directing his own life and that of his fellows. Every participation is really distinct from that in which it participates—a principle evidently applicable in this case, for the eternal law is God while the law of nature is a set of precepts.

(Germain G. Grisez, "The First Principle of Practical Reason: A Commentary on the Summa Theologiae, 1-2, Question 94, Article 2," Natural Law Forum 10 [1965]: 168-201, at 192 [italics in original; footnote omitted])

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To the Editor:

Re “Driverless Car’s Nemesis? Drivers” (front page, Sept. 2):

Driving is more than a set of rules for cars, to be “smoothed out” by developers of self-driving cars. It’s a social skill, in which drivers collaborate in a complex choreography that requires them to understand, anticipate and respond to the actions of other drivers on the road. It’s a wholly human dance, beyond a few technological fixes.

NANCY LEDERMAN

East Hampton, N.Y.

The Golden Age of Wireless (1983).

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To the Editor:

Re “Europe’s Deadly Asylum Policies” (editorial, Sept. 1):

Europe may offer a safe haven on the closest contiguous land mass to the troubled regions of Africa and the Middle East. But does that geography burden Europe with exclusive responsibility for what you call the “human tsunami”?

The United States had a role in the events leading up to this crisis; shouldn’t we do more to help, before hectoring Europe to reform its failed asylum policies?

America has vast regions of thin population, while Europe is already densely populated. We Americans need to remember our own humble origins as a nation of immigrants and welcome our fair share of these “huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”

PAUL J. CORCORAN

Greenbrae, Calif.

Note from KBJ: How many will you be taking in, Paul? Greenbrae looks like a wonderful place to put some refugees.

This Is Real Music: 1994 Sampler Take One (1994).