American Politics

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The Achievement of Wolfhart Pannenberg

Michael Root

Some theologians are mirrors of their time. The mid-twentieth century rises from the pages of Tillich as…

Thumblings

Paul Lake

Far more than Once Upon a Time, A lonely would-be single-mom Wished for a child, and one…

Exporting Gay Rights

R. R. Reno

Exporting Gay Rights It was a telling speech, Hillary Clinton’s address to the United Nations Human Rights…

Hating the Teens We Indulge

Agnes Howard

A young woman in the house helps the once idealistic parent to see the error in assuming…

Converting the Canvas

Matthew Milliner

Earthly Visions: Theology and the Challenges of Art by timothy gorringe yale university press, 254 pages, $45…

A Disposition of Delight

Elizabeth Corey

After his death in 1990, Michael Oakeshott’s executors found dozens of unpublished but completed essays in the…

Evangelical Advantages

Mark A. Noll

The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture by Christian Smith…

Romanticism Unbound

Jeffrey A. Smith

The Romantic Revolution: A History by tim blanning modern library, 272 pages, $22 The very aim that…

Faith-Based Voting

Carson Holloway

I think Mitt Romney’s a good, moral man,” Southern Baptist pastor Robert Jeffress told CNN at last…

Briefly Noted

Various

Anything Goes ?by Theodore Dalrymple New English Review Press, 218 pages, $19.95 n In much learning there…

Disestablishing Our Secular Schools

Charles L. Glenn

Just about everyone agrees that one reason religious belief and practice have flourished in the United States,…

A Philosophy for the Powerful

R. R. Reno

Once animated by revolutionary ardor, our secular intellectuals have reached a dead end. Today they pen books…

Uncanny Man

Thomas S. Hibbs

A Case for Irony by Jonathan Lear Harvard, 224 pages, $29.95 Not long before 9/11, a young…

Homeschooling’s Liberalism

David Mills

The other day someone asked about our children, and my answer worried him, or at least he…

A Balanced Mind

Philip S. Gorski

Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World Without Becoming a Bore by Peter L.…