American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
RJN: 6.28.06 I know I reveal my…
I know I reveal my old-fogeyism when I say that I’m only vaguely aware of who Britney…
AS: 6.19.06 Some think…
Somebody thought The Passion needed a sequel, and not merely in the theological sense. What’s more, somebody…
RJN: 6.15.06 Ramesh Punnuru has kicked…
Ramesh Ponnuru has kicked off a very important discussion with his book The Party of Death ,…
RJN: 6.8.06 Less than a year ago…
Less than a year ago, on July 7, 2005, four bombs went off in the London underground,…