American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
America the Pious—and Impious
American Religion is a useful little book. Duke sociologist Mark Chaves provides a concise summary of religious…
Notes from the Editor’s Desk
On the first Monday of October, Gilbert Meilaender delivered our annual Erasmus Lecture. Speaking to a large…
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…
Age and Wisdom
I recently saw an older friend who has suffered from some health problems. I asked him how…
A Proposal: Tax Divorce
Roll back no-fault divorce,” I said when a friend asked what we could do about marriage in…
Mea Culpa
In the same Public Square last month I observed that few sermons get preached these days on…
Treating Democracy
The Responsibility of Reason: Theory and Practice in a Liberal-Democratic Age by Ralph C. Hancock Rowman and…
