American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
John Wesley and Religious Freedom
Lumping together the recently attempted Arizona religious freedom law with new criminal laws against homosexuality in Nigeria…
A Double Life
Byrdby kerry mccarthyoxford, 304 pages, $39.95 Judging by the tracks programmed by my local classical music radio…
Divine Perfection
The God of the Gospel: Robert Jenson’s TrinitarianTheology? by scott r. swain?ivp academic, 258 pages, $24 How…
Briefly Noted
The Future of Religious Freedom: Global Challengeseditedby allen d. hertzke oxford, 386 pages, $29.95 In matters of religious…
Letters
Discrimination Even though we disagree on gay marriage and on gay rights more generally, I admire R.…
This Time Will Not Be the Same
G od willing, the new evangelization will happen, but let usnot imagine that this time will be…
Dogma and Beauty
The Fine Delight: Postconciliar Catholic Literature?bynicholas ripatrazonewipf & stock, 202 pages, $23 Shortly after Robert Lowell’s conversion…
Who’s Right?
The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Leftby yuval levinbasic, 296…
Oh, Bury Me Not
Though I was never one for cemeteries and am not in the habit of visiting the graves…
Winning the Abortion Olympics
The Sochi Olympics are over and the medals have been counted. It was a tough winter for…
The Enduring Appeal of Marriage
In 2008 the Supreme Court of Connecticut decided that the provision of civil unions for same-sex couples…
The War on Humans
During its first century, environmentalism succeeded brilliantly. In 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed a law creating…
The Joyless House of Cards
The second season of Netflix’s House of Cards introduces a new aide for Vice President Frank Underwood, who seems…
America’s Mandarin Problem
A physicist, a chemist, and an economist are stranded on an island, with nothing to eat. A…
Andrew Cuomo and the liberal blacklist
Pete Seeger died on January 27, rich in years (ninety-four) and in honors (a lifetime-achievement Grammy, the…
