American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Paradoxical Portraits
Blessed and Beautiful: Picturing the Saints by Robert Kiely Yale, 288 pages, $40 n What I discovered,”…
RJN and First Things
This issue marks the beginning of First Things ’ twenty-second year of publication, and every new publishing…
Letters—March 2011
Conservative Liberalism or Liberal Conservatism? I am grateful to James Kalb for his thoughtful and respectful engagement…
The Real Myth
The Myth of American Religious Freedom by David Sehat Oxford, 368 pages, $29.95 n Conservatives, argues David…
Culture and the Light of Faith
Since the Enlightenment it has been fashionable to denounce Christians for prostituting the legacy of classical culture.…
Waiting for St. Vladimir
Alasdair MacIntyre, who is probably the greatest living philosopher, concludes his 1981 masterwork After Virtue by saying,…
Magnificat
Already gravid, she ascended, nearly bereft of any solace, faith, or hope. The pregnant matron, proudly and…
Race Matters
Americans like to think of their history as a success story. And so, by most measures, and…
A Philosopher in the Twilight
In his preface to the Philosophy of Right, Hegel famously remarks that the owl of Minerva takes…
Father Tom Leads the Faithful in Prayer
We pray first for our Pope. Lend him the strength to cope with those who have no…
Letters—February 2011
Bearing Witness through marriage Liberal evangelical Ron Sider makes a strong case in favor of the ancient…
Pilgrimage
Six days a week, this solo pilgrimage across the wildnerness of weedy sloughs and uphill root-snares and…
The Catholic I Am
In recent years those of us who are Lutherans have witnessed a steady stream of Lutheran theologians—many…
Two Davids
Michelangelo’s David is too smooth and fair and too Italian”too much like a boy who’d stand with…
A Review of Redeeming Economics
Redeeming Economics: Rediscovering the Missing Element by John D. Mueller ISI Books, 400 pages, $27.95 n Harry…
