American Politics
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Ecclesiocentrism
Hauerwas: A (Very) Critical Introduction by nicholas m. healy eerdmans, 154 pages, $23 Good books on contemporary…
The New New Left
The New New Left We’re heading toward a meritocratic, libertarian-tilting consensus in America. That’s my reading of…
On a Bird
The swift perched, tweeting like a petty tyrant, Ruffling the feathers of self-love and power, And dropped…
Singing Lessons
As my daughter and I travelled home over the Wicklow Mountains, our voices echoed between the cliffs,…
A Pessimistic Case for Hope
Ten years ago this fall, it seemed for a moment like social conservatives might be ascendant in…
The Election of 1800
Everything that makes American politics the best outdoor sport ever shows up in the presidential election of…
Standing Against the Human “Dignity Deniers”
God may not be dead, but considering the imago Dei in philosophical discourse and public policy certainly…
A False Choice
The performance of populist parties in Europe should be a warning for American conservatives. Those European parties…
Tocqueville in Arabia
Over the course of the last three hundred years, in broad swaths of the globe where Anglo-American…
Regensburg Vindicated
On the evening of Sept. 12, 2006, my wife and I were dining in Cracow with Polish…
Remember the Prisoners
Nobody criticizes us. We have no enemies,” Warden Burl Cain tells me as the servers load our…
The Poor Are Not Middle Class
Linda Tirado’s poverty was a horrible grind with no means of ready escape. “Why I Make Terrible…
InterVarsity Christian Ministry in Trouble for Acting Christian
To protect against discrimination, liberals increasingly seek to discriminate. News broke over the weekend that all twenty-three…
From Cain to Isis
The radical Islamic movement ISIS is more radical than Islamic. It is true, of course, that this…
How to Avoid Death Panels
It shows the level of suspicion people have for government and the health care system that many…
