American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

He Threw It All Away

Robert P. George

In the early 1970s, Lutheran pastor Richard John Neuhaus was poised to become the nation’s next great…

Than Longen Folk to Goon on Pilgrimages

Joseph Bottum

The Canterbury Tales by geoffrey chaucer translated by burton raffel modern library, 672 pages, $36 Chaucer is…

Preserving the Law

Robert Louis Wilken

Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism by paula fredriksen doubleday, 512 pages,…

Candid Headstone

A. M. Juster

Here lies what’s left of Michael Juster, A failure filled with bile and bluster. Regard the scuttlebutt…

Biotech: What to Expect

Yuval Levin

Over the past fifteen years, the pro-life movement has succeeded in enacting some modest limitations on embryo-destructive…

At This Still Point of the Turning World

Marion Montgomery

The winter poplars stand” Strange masts with spars Under cold stars. I shall wait a myriad sail…

A Religion for Atheists

Alan Jacobs

Alain de Botton has been engaged for many years now in an intriguing project”to get people to…

Abortion After Obama

Joseph Bottum

It happens every four years”maybe every two years: Anytime there’s an election in this country, the pundits…

Briefly Noted 224

Various

Phenomenology of the Human Person by Robert Sokolowski Cambridge University Press, 360 pages, $26.99 paper Robert Sokolowski…

Homecoming

Joseph Bottum

Sometimes I dream I’m flying just above the plain” the world in wheat beneath me, the rivers…

Asking the Wrong Question

Alan L. Mittleman

I recently attended two conversations under the aegis of the Templeton Foundation’s Big Questions initiative. Both dealt…

The Excellence of Limits

Christopher Tollefsen

In the Shadow of Progress: Being Human in the Age of Technology by Eric Cohen Encounter, 180…

2008 December Letters

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Protestant Christendom Joseph Bottum’s article, “ The Death of Protestant America: A Political Theory of the Protestant…

Children’s Books, Lost and Found

Joseph Bottum

Sometimes a book is in the canon of children’s literature just because the writing is so good.…

Dostoevsky’s Question

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square In 2007, as the Anglican communion was tearing itself apart, the archbishop of Canterbury,…