American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Moderate Muslims, the Writing of History, and Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
I see that Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali has made it to the bestseller lists. Hirsi Ali,…
The Youthful Shepherd
A youthful shepherd, wandering and feeling far from his heart’s content, goes sad and lonely, his thoughts…
Render Unto Atatürk
When thousands of furious Muslims rallied in the streets of the West Bank, Pakistan, and Indonesia to…
Who Is Harry Sylvester?
If the Ministry of Truth had devoted their full attention to obliterating the memory of Harry Sylvester,…
Metaphysical America
A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion by catherine l. albanese…
A River Runs Through It
David Brooks once offered an explanation for an editorial job he held¯one of those jobs where you…
Briefly Noted 178
Kierkegaard and Socrates: A Study in Philosophy and Faith , by Jacob Howland, Cambridge University Press, 246…
Catholic Nursing Homes to Be Forced to Permit Assisted Suicide
“Choice” my foot: If the new bill to legalize assisted suicide in California (A.B. 374) becomes law,…
William & Mary’s Chapel at a Crossroad
In October of 2006, William & Mary’s new college president, Gene R. Nichol, ordered the altar cross…
The Closing of the American Mind Revisited
The most recent number of The Intercollegiate Review, published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, features a symposium…
Battles Ancient and New for the Armenian Church
Earlier this month, as it has for many centuries, the Armenian Church commemorated the Feast of St.…
T.S. Eliot, Mother Teresa, and the Children of Darkness
Whatever the merits or demerits of Craig Raine’s new biography, T.S. Eliot , and Terry Eagleton thinks…
The Anglicans: What Happened in Tanzania
“We came very close to separation,” said Archbishop Gregory Venables of this weekend’s meeting of global Anglican…
Cardinal Newman for Ash Wednesday
No theologian working inside the traditions of western Christianity was more sensitive to the rhythms of the…
The Fear of Being Viewed as Insufficiently Progressive
One detects in some quarters a sense of inevitability about momentous changes in the ordering¯or disordering, as…
