American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Exporting Gay Rights
It was a telling speech, Hillary Clinton’s address to the United Nations Human Rights Council in recognition…
Hating the Teens We Indulge
A young woman in the house helps the once idealistic parent to see the error in assuming…
Converting the Canvas
Earthly Visions: Theology and the Challenges of Art by timothy gorringe yale university press, 254 pages, $45…
A Disposition of Delight
After his death in 1990, Michael Oakeshott’s executors found dozens of unpublished but completed essays in the…
Evangelical Advantages
The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture by Christian Smith…
Romanticism Unbound
The Romantic Revolution: A History by tim blanning modern library, 272 pages, $22 The very aim that…
Faith-Based Voting
I think Mitt Romney’s a good, moral man,” Southern Baptist pastor Robert Jeffress told CNN at last…
Briefly Noted
Anything Goes ?by Theodore Dalrymple New English Review Press, 218 pages, $19.95 n In much learning there…
A Case for Later Marriage
At my parish moms’ club, mothers arrive in the church hall with their preschoolers and toddlers ready…
Disestablishing Our Secular Schools
Just about everyone agrees that one reason religious belief and practice have flourished in the United States,…
Uncanny Man
A Case for Irony by Jonathan Lear Harvard, 224 pages, $29.95 Not long before 9/11, a young…
Homeschooling’s Liberalism
The other day someone asked about our children, and my answer worried him, or at least he…
A Balanced Mind
Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World Without Becoming a Bore by Peter L.…
The Death of Isaac Nathan, 1864
Stone statues of ancient waves tongue like dingoes on shore in time with wave-glitter on the harbor…
Citizens, Not Subjects
Our patriotic desire to unite in solidarity can become undisciplined and distorted, manifesting itself in overheated and…
