American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

The Revolt of the Right

Randy Boyagoda

Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to…

Juliet on Facebook

Kim Bridgford

I saw his Facebook picture, met for chat, And then the two of us said that was…

Now Sing, My Lovelies

Kevin Hadduck

Darlings, sing, and open-throated, send your voices, winged with high-flown praise, and raise, not merely roofs, but…

Not Understanding Nothing

Edward Feser

A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing by lawrence m. krauss free press,…

Letters

Various

Problematic Premises In response to John Haldane’s argumentum ad consummationem (“Against Erotic Entitlements,” April): Why shouldn’t it…

Did the Highbrows Kill Culture?

Matthew Cantirino

Fred Siegel has a piece in the latest issue of Commentary in which he argues that “highbrows”…

Briefly Noted

Various

Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis, and the Misrepresentation of Humanity by Raymond Tallis Acumen, 388 pages, $29.95 n…

Remembering John Hick

Gavin D'Costa

Explain, John Hick once asked me in an undergraduate class, the traditional axiom that my church holds,…

The Selma Analogy

R. R. Reno

It’s easy to see why gay activists invoke the civil-rights movement of the 1950s and early 1960s,…

Christian Europe?

Andrea M. Maccarini

Why We Should Call Ourselves Christians: The Religious Roots of Free Societiesby marcello peraencounter, 224 pages, $23.95 A…

Insignia

Jean de La Ceppède (translated from the French by Susan McLean)

A crimson surcoat aptly suits victorious kings. This royal victor, as a joke, is clothed by mocking…

On Two Moons and a Prayer

Randy Boyagoda

1Q84 by haruki murakami, translated by jay rubin and philip gabrielknopf, 944 pages, $30.50 Much to my…

America’s Smiling God

Peter L. Berger

When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God ?by T. M. Luhrmann Knopf, 464…

Salting David Livingstone, 1873

Brian Doyle

He was, you know. Dried out and salted down By men who had carried his stuff all…

I Come to the Garden

Gail White

I can name so few flowers. This is why I’m not a better poet. Shakespeare knew oxlip…