American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

The Dangers of Anti-Sharia Laws

Robert K. Vischer

The law in several states now requires pro-life pharmacists to dispense the morning-after pill, Christian adoption agencies…

Things Not Caesar’s

Richard W. Garnett

Clarity and unanimity have not exactly been the hallmarks of the Supreme Court’s efforts to interpret and…

Briefly Noted

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Savonarola: The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet ?by Donald Weinstein ?Yale, 400 pages, $38 n…

Spinoza Unreformed

Allan Arkush

A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age ? by…

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

It was a telling speech, Hillary Clinton’s address to the United Nations Human Rights Council in recognition…

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After his death in 1990, Michael Oakeshott’s executors found dozens of unpublished but completed essays in the…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

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

A Case for Later Marriage

Elise Ehrhard

At my parish moms’ club, mothers arrive in the church hall with their preschoolers and toddlers ready…