American Politics
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Reno: Benedict XVI and Islam
Whether or not one agrees with the pope’s historical analysis of de-Hellenization, he is surely right about…
RJN: The Pope and His Cultured Advisers
You recall those awful years of John Paul II’s authoritarian and repressive pontificate when the ailing pontiff,…
Pearce: British Muslims�Muslims First?
In spite of the general malaise that looms over England like a malignant cloud, there are still…
Anderson: Benedict, Islam, Faith, and Reason
Death threats issued to Pope Benedict XVI, Muslims burning the Pope in effigy, promises to conquer Rome…
Wilken: Pope Benedict XVI, a Byzantine emperor, and Muslims
The passage quoted by Pope Benedict XVI in his speech at the University of Regensburg that caused…
RJN: Artificial Happiness
No, not that Ronald Dworkin, the legal philosopher at New York University. This Ronald Dworkin is a…
Powers: Mac Donald and the Moral Legacy of Christianity
Heather Mac Donald’s defense of “skeptical” (i.e., atheist) conservatives against the Religious Right has by now been…
Smith: Animal Rights and Wrongs
I don’t agree at all with Gary Francione , the Rutgers University law professor who seeks to…
“The Incredibles,” “The Science of Sleep”
“My bonnie lass she smelleth, making all the flowers jealouth.” I’m with you, Anthony . The P.D.Q.…
Gene McCarthy and Robert F. Kennedy
In about March or April of 1968 (is it really so many years ago?), I received a…
Stephen Webb: The Academic Left
Cultural studies, postcolonialism, and postmodernity have so completely corrupted higher education that one wonders if their infiltration…
It Ain’t Me, Babe
Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews edited by jonathan cottwenner, 464 pages, $23.95 No matter how many albums…
The Code Breakers
A few years ago, I wrote an essay in praise of the Harry Potter books that yielded…
Theocracy, Theocracy, Theocracy
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion,Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Centuryby Kevin…
RJN: 6.30.06 Where did the storm…
Where did the storm over immigration come from? In conversations with folks who are in the thick…