American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Review of Breakwater
Breakwater by Catharine Savage Brosman Mercer University Press, 112 pages, $30 n If classical meter really did…
Bad Medicine
A kind of exhaustion always settles in, murky and miasmatic, after battle. The nation’s conservatives foresaw the…
A Dedicated Life
Gilbert Meilaender writes a letter to his old friend Stanley Hauerwas . Dear Stan, I read your…
Review of Fly Fishing with Darth Vader
Fly Fishing with Darth Vader: And Other Adventures With Evangelical Wrestlers, Political Hitmen, and Jewish Cowboys by…
Review of The Constant Fire: Beyond the Science & Religion Debate
The Constant Fire: Beyond the Science & Religion Debate by Adam Frank University of California Press, 304…
I’ve learned to live in wise simplicity
I’ve learned to live in wise simplicity, To look into the heavens and to pray, And wear…
A King in Israel
Israel is a Jewish state but has not succeeded in defining just what that means in a…
Heidegger’s Tragedy
Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933“1935 by Emmanuel…
Six Years in Tibet
Jesuit on the Roof of the World: Ippolito Desideri’s Mission to Tibet by Trent Pomplun Oxford, 320…
Do Movie Critics Matter?
It’s always a good year at the movies, even if the great films can be counted on…
In His Image
Oh we are many Some too fat Others so skinny Take us back
The Case Against Casey
The recent fight over taxpayer funding of abortion in the national health-care bill revealed not only that…
The God-Seeking Animal
On the cover of Being Human, the anthology of writings collected by the President’s Council on Bioethics…
Compact
The uplifted unfolded phone casts its lunar digital glow on the face of the young woman pausing…
Christians and Postmoderns
Joseph Bottum, a young medievalist, made his debut in First Things with an account of faith in…
