American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
This Heartbreaking Court
Both sides in the culture war over abortion have been readying themselves for the decision of the…
Main Currents of Kolakowski
Few contemporary philosophers have works considered important by non-academics. Their intellectual pursuits, important as they are in…
Anderson: The Parable of the Good Soccer Mom
Democrats need to get religion, or so say political analysts in the wake of the 2004 election…
Miller: Well-Ordered Means and Ends Revisited
Eduardo Moisés Peñalver, who teaches at Cornell, argues in Commonweal that the genuinely Catholic vote this fall…
Powers: The Real Clinton Legacy
On the same day my husband applied for Social Security benefits, we watched the purple-faced Bill Clinton…
Hylden: Hope for the Anglican Communion
For the first time in recent memory, Anglican conservatives have something to cheer about. Ever since the…
George: Reply to Garnett
Mirror of Justice , a website for Catholic law professors, has been the forum for some exceptionally…
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…
