American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Briefly Noted (Nov. 2005)
Heavenly Torah as Refracted through the Generations. By Abraham Joshua Heschel, edited and translated by Gordon Tucker…
The Great Woman Theory of History
Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman’s Crusade by Donald T. Critchlow Princeton University Press, 438 pages,…
Why Democracy Is Not the Answer
Whenever I hear about a “liberal-conservative standoff,” I feel the impulse, conciliatory soul that I am, to…
Letters—November 2005
Fusion or Confusion? Joseph Bottum’s intelligent and clever essay on “The New Fusionism” (June/July) offers a possible…
Harriet Miers continues to…
Harriet Miers continues to be pilloried by numerous conservatives, and some of them are being quite nasty…
God & Bertie Wooster
Suppose that words were all you had. Suppose the great edifice of Western civilization had collapsed around…
The New Europes
Year after year since the evil empire’s fall, the promise of Poland increases. If history is capable…
The Design of Evolution
Catholic theology has never really had a quarrel with the idea that the present species of plants…
Letters—October 2005
An Actual Buddhist Peter J. Leithart does not know what he is talking about in his article…
Hitler’s Mufti
In his 2004 book The Return of Anti-Semitism, Gabriel Schoenfeld declared that “the ancient and modern strands…
Letters—Aug/Sept 2005
More on War Paul J. Griffith’s analogy of the “just war” with the procedure for licensing drivers…
An Unworkable Theology
It is increasingly difficult to escape the fact that mainline Protestantism is in a state of disintegration.…
Letters—June/July 2005
The Science of the Mind It was good to read Paul C. Vitz’s article about “psychology in…
Dirty Jokes and Freedom in America
Two years ago Frank Rich was moved from his op-ed column to a space in the Sunday…
Letters—May 2005
Duel over Dualism Dualists hold that the human person consists of both a soul (or mind) and…
