American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Spade to Dig With
For a large part of the past school year, my daughter and her classmates went to school…
Travel Magazine Revised
The beauty luring men aboard the ship / In time’s a wreck, unsightly and ignored. / The…
Childish Adults
Childism: Confronting Prejudice Against Children by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Yale, 368 pages, $28 n With three pre-schoolers in…
The Battle Already Won
If we believe in the sure triumph of Christ, why do we allow ourselves to be drawn…
The Jewish Mission
Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission…
Mixed Blessings
The turkey’s in the oven. My bare feet / rest on the windowsill. A welcome breeze /…
The Genius of the Women Saints
This Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI will canonize seven new saints. His honorees include four women, two of…
While We’re At It – Pt. IV
• We all have a romantic image of monks patiently copying texts in their scriptoria, with the…
Human Unity Real and Imagined
Every epoch has its secular religion, a perverse imitation of Christianity that takes part of the Christian…
Rewriting the Social Contract
The social contract in America is coming undone, and it will be revised and rewritten in the…
Briefly Noted
Methodism and Politics in the Twentieth Century by Mark Tooley Bristol House, 406 pages, $27.95 Perhaps Mark…
Everyman’s Poet
Pity the Beautiful by Dana Gioia Graywolf, 80 pages, $15 Dana Gioia is one of those poets…
At Sea
We stream on color: blue, aquamarine, dove grey. To look straight down gives vertigo, but farther out…
Three Riddles by Saint Aldhelm
When bloody flooding killed the human race / And brand-new oceans put man in his place, /…
The Flimflam Theater
When I was a boy I had a friend named Dennis McCann / Who was totally and…
