American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Now Sing, My Lovelies
Darlings, sing, and open-throated, send / your voices, winged with high-flown praise...
Not Understanding Nothing
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing by lawrence m. krauss free press,…
Letters—June/July 2012
Problematic Premises In response to John Haldane’s argumentum ad consummationem (“Against Erotic Entitlements,” April): Why shouldn’t it…
Did the Highbrows Kill Culture?
Fred Siegel has a piece in the latest issue of Commentary in which he argues that “highbrows”…
Briefly Noted
Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis, and the Misrepresentation of Humanity by Raymond Tallis Acumen, 388 pages, $29.95 n…
Remembering John Hick
Explain, John Hick once asked me in an undergraduate class, the traditional axiom that my church holds,…
The Selma Analogy
It’s easy to see why gay activists invoke the civil-rights movement of the 1950s and early 1960s,…
Christian Europe?
Why We Should Call Ourselves Christians: The Religious Roots of Free Societiesby marcello peraencounter, 224 pages, $23.95 A…
Contraceptive Controversy
The Obama administration was surprised by the degree and intensity of resistance to the Health and Human…
Insignia
A crimson surcoat aptly suits victorious / kings. This royal victor, as a joke, / is clothed…
On Two Moons and a Prayer
1Q84 by haruki murakami, translated by jay rubin and philip gabrielknopf, 944 pages, $30.50 Much to my…
America’s Smiling God
When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God ?by T. M. Luhrmann Knopf, 464…
Salting David Livingstone, 1873
He was, you know. Dried out and salted down / By men who had carried his stuff…
I Come to the Garden
I can name so few flowers. This is why I’m not a better poet. Shakespeare knew oxlip…
Evolution and Islam
Professor Steve Jones is having trouble with students cutting class. This isn’t something stellar professors like Jones,…
