American Politics
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Timeless Cities: An Architect’s Reflections on Renaissance Italy
In the moderately memorable 1997 movie The Edge , Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin portray characters marooned…
Gibson’s Passion
From mosaics and music to paintings and plays, the arts have proven to be a mighty vehicle…
Publick Religion: Adams v. Jefferson
The civic catechisms of our day still celebrate Thomas Jefferson’s experiment in religious liberty. To end a…
A Jury of One’s Godless Peers
Reading First Things may disqualify you from sitting on a jury, at least if a lawyer decides…
Art: A New History
Yes, it is possible to write a single-volume general history of art, if you narrow the definition…
The Family: Discovering the Obvious
For many years now, and often inadvertently, secular as well as religious researchers have been amassing facts…
Children at Risk
At first glance, Hardwired to Connect, the recent report from the Commission on Children at Risk, a group…
The Enemies of Religious Liberty
It is common for religious believers to lament the Supreme Court’s barely concealed hostility to the free…
Founding Fathers?
John Winthrop: America’s Forgotten Father.by Francis J. Bremer.Oxford University Press. 478 pp. $39.95. William Bradford’s Books: Of…
The Three Rings of Monotheism
The Monotheists: Jew, Christians, and Muslims in Conflict and Competition.by F.E. Peters.Volume I: the Peoples of God;…
A More Public Yeshiva
The investiture of a university president—that is, the ceremony in which the authority and symbols of that…
Luther, the Movie
At least among sociologists of religion, if not journalists, it has become something of a cliché that…
Confessions of a Christian Historian
“History is God’s theatre, . . . God’s jousting place.” …
Catholicism as the Other
Martin Scorsese’s recent film The Gangs of New York takes us back to a time when religion,…
Diverse Diversities
Diversity can rightly be called a value-free term. All it does, ordinarily, is identify a condition of…
