American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
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…
