American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Candid Headstone
Here lies what’s left of Michael Juster, A failure filled with bile and bluster. Regard the scuttlebutt…
Biotech: What to Expect
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
The winter poplars stand” Strange masts with spars Under cold stars. I shall wait a myriad sail…
A Religion for Atheists
Alain de Botton has been engaged for many years now in an intriguing project”to get people to…
Abortion After Obama
It happens every four years”maybe every two years: Anytime there’s an election in this country, the pundits…
Briefly Noted 224
Phenomenology of the Human Person by Robert Sokolowski Cambridge University Press, 360 pages, $26.99 paper Robert Sokolowski…
Homecoming
Sometimes I dream I’m flying just above the plain” the world in wheat beneath me, the rivers…
Asking the Wrong Question
I recently attended two conversations under the aegis of the Templeton Foundation’s Big Questions initiative. Both dealt…
The Excellence of Limits
In the Shadow of Progress: Being Human in the Age of Technology by Eric Cohen Encounter, 180…
Letters—December 2008
Protestant Christendom Joseph Bottum’s article, “ The Death of Protestant America: A Political Theory of the Protestant…
Children’s Books, Lost and Found
Sometimes a book is in the canon of children’s literature just because the writing is so good.…
Dostoevsky’s Question
The Public Square In 2007, as the Anglican communion was tearing itself apart, the archbishop of Canterbury,…
The Forgotten Story of Postmodernity
In February 1943, standing before thousands of loyal Nazis in the Sportpalast in Berlin, Josef Goebbels called…
In Defense of the Sovereign Family
Government alone is where law can be found. At least, the American people generally think so. That…
For Pro-Lifers, A New Day
The worst aspect of an Obama presidency, I have been telling friends for months, will be his…
