American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Changing Minds, Saving Lives
The propagandist hopes you will not think too carefully, the persuader asks you to consider. Persuasion changes…
Against Stupidity
I have been thinking a lot about stupidity lately, largely, I suppose, because I spend a good…
The Dignifying Family
Those who lost their rights but kept their dignity, as John Paul II and the Polish people…
Germanizing Protestantism
Founding the Fathers: ? Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth-Century America by Elizabeth Clark University…
Taxing Boredom
The Pale King by David foster Wallace Little, Brown, 548 pages, $27.99 n It’s not often that…
Greenblatt’s Curious Omission
In the Middle Ages,” said a candidate for a position in medieval literature at my college, “beauty…
Whither Marriage?
Proponents of same-sex marriage frame their cause in terms of civil rights. There are no significant moral…
The Collins Bank Bible
The Holy Bible: New International Version Zondervan 1152 pages, $27.99 With more than 400 million copies in…
Briefly Noted
Orthodoxy and the Roman Papacy: Ut Unum Sint and the Prospects of East“West Unity by Adam A.…
The Song that Ena Zizi Sang
As usual one story will have to serve for one million stories. That is the way of…
Oriental Aspects of Occidental Faith
In my fifteen years in Aberdeen, the Old Aberdeen mosque went from a tiny to a flourishing…
On a Certain Viennese Doctor
Inventing a refined disease afflicting all the human race, he took away ideas of ease, exposed us,…
Bell’s Present Heaven
Explicit confession of the Lordship of Jesus is not necessary for salvation, at least under certain circumstances”very…
On Hesperus at Confession
When Hesperus was making his confession of sins, according to the sacred rite, the careful priest explored…
At the Right Hand
Ascension Theology by Douglas Farrow T&T Clark, 177 pages, $27.95 n Simply put,” writes Douglas Farrow, “our…
