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PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL SCIENCE

James Poulos

Here’s the table of contents for the forthcoming issue (Jan.-March.): ARTICLES Health Care and the Technological Project 1 Tom Merrill The Demise of Feminist Communitarianism 9 Jon A. Shields...

Patron Saints for Postmoderns by Chris. R. Armstrong

James Poulos

Patron Saints for Postmoderns: Ten from the Past Who Speak to Our Future by chris r. armstrong ivp, 249 pages, $16 How is a Christian to situate himself or...

David Brooks Goes Wobbly on Suburbs

James Poulos

“Whatever the reason,” writes Prof. Deneen , clearly sporting for another round of epic battle, “it’s good news indeed. Score 1 for FPR, zero for the PoMoCons.” But Brooks’...

Splitting Lincolnian Hairs

James Poulos

I’ve had the opportunity recently to do some extra-careful thinking about Lincoln, the founding, and the Union. I’m pretty sure I’ve decided that many nettlesome and momentous theoretical issues...

Joe Escalante on Restoring Faith

James Poulos

Let’s take the solemn dress code away from the Goths, the Rosaries away from the gangs, the blood & death fixation away from the scene-kids, the art away from...

“Chosen, But Not Special”

James Poulos

I find this Michael Chabon op-ed , written in the wake of Israel’s interception of the Gaza flotilla, to be remarkable, and not in a good way. A few...

Proto-Pomocon

James Poulos

Is Noah Millman flirting with postmodern conservatism ? I report, you decide.

Libertarians Against Nudging

James Poulos

Yes, Virginia. Will Wilkinson does the world a service and gives Glen Whitman plenty of space to air his deep concerns with nudgetarianism. At a recent panel discussing prospects...

The Rustic Belt

James Poulos

I’m up at Bloggingheads talking American “rustics” with Jim Pinkerton — folks I sometimes refer to, in a spirit akin to Hunter Thompson’s, as “rubes.” One big question is...

Ricochet

James Poulos

And now, a bit of news I’m excited to share: I’ve signed on as Managing Editor at Ricochet, a new online political forum coming your way in a matter...

Getting Me Wrong

James Poulos

Russell Arben Fox is unhappy : Poulos’s ridiculous, Tea-Partier rhetoric about a bill that has been sent back and forth through the legislative wringer more times over the past...

Berry Revisited

James Poulos

Apropos of my remarks below , a reader writes: It seems to me that you’re taking his quote about the politicization out of context, first of all. He’s downright...

Our Fair Share of Whirlwind

James Poulos

I was going to post something on the latest dreadful new census commercial, but this will serve us all pretty nicely.

Obama’s Legal Vision

James Poulos

And now, my conclusion about where Obamacare falls into the law-versus-politics schema I mentioned, below, in the context of marriage and divorce. There was one real highlight and moment...

Law and Marriage

James Poulos

Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate ‘relationship’ involving (ideally) two successful careerists in the same bed, and on...