American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Death of Isaac Nathan, 1864
Stone statues of ancient waves tongue like dingoes on shore in time with wave-glitter on the harbor…
A Case for Later Marriage
At my parish moms’ club, mothers arrive in the church hall with their preschoolers and toddlers ready…
Leo Steinberg’s Artistic Vision
Hundreds of Renaissance paintings of the Madonna and Child represent the Christ Child with his genitals blatantly…
Niebuhr Without Irony
Why Niebuhr Matters ? by Charles Lemert?yale Yale University Press, 272 pages, $26 n The current Reinhold…
The Children’s Crusade of 1212
Aching for Acre, in a sacred ague, They’re setting out. They wear only their nightgowns, These ageless…
Because of What God Has Done
My host told me, a rabbi with a yarmulke on my head, to address the pope in…
The Living City
Works of social criticism often do not wear well, and even the best of them tend to…
Lacking Liberalism
The Democratic Soul: A Wilson Carey McWilliams Reader ? by Wilson Carey Mcwilliams,? edited by Patrick J.…
Hume’s Destructive Genius
Recently recognized was the three-hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Scottish philosopher David Hume. Celebrations were…
The Failed 9/11 Memorial
Rush-hour traffic emerged from the Battery Tunnel and roared up West Street on that gray, overcast afternoon…
Books for Christmas
If memory serves, this past year saw electronic books top printed books in the sales figures at…
Treating Democracy
The Responsibility of Reason: Theory and Practice in a Liberal-Democratic Age by Ralph C. Hancock Rowman and…
A Generation Detached
Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood by Christian Smith, with Kari Christoffersen, Hilary Davidson,…
After Establishment
For a long time Irish politics and culture have been married to Catholicism. Now we seem to…
Scientia ad Absurdum
The Atheist’s Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions by Alex Rosenberg W. W. Norton, 368 pages,…
