American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

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Political Visions & Illusions: A Survey and Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies. By David T. Koyzis. InterVarsity.…

One Little Word

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square It is an unprecedented “but,” although I expect it will turn out to be…

Just War, As It Was and Is

James Turner Johnson

The just war tradition came into being during the Middle Ages as a way of thinking about…

The Deist Minimum

Avery Cardinal Dulles

As Christianity spread throughout the Greco-Roman world, it became apparent that the biblical doctrines concerning God, morality,…

Bob Casey’s Revenge

William McGurn

I can’t believe I’m losing to this idiot. So said John Kerry during the presidential campaign. Judging…

Rival Immortalities

Eric Cohen

Human Dignity in the Biotech Century: A Christian Vision for Public Policy edited by Chrles W. Colson…

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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason By Sam Harris W.W. Norton 256pp.…

The Politics of Gratitude

Peter J. Leithart

Coriolanus is far from being the most popular of Shakespeare’s plays, but many of us remember the…

Letters—December 2004

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Just Punishment? In “Capital Punishment: The Case for Justice” (August/September), J. Budziszewski makes a strong argument for…

Christopher Lasch and the Limits of Hope

Patrick J. Deneen

Christopher Lasch’s untimely death in 1994 deprived America of its most loving critic, a man who in…

Strange Science

Thomas Sieger Derr

Global warming has achieved the status of a major threat. It inspires nightmares of a troubled future…

Us and Them

Maria Poggi Johnson

Six months out of grad school and into our first jobs, my husband and I fell in…

While We’re At It

Richard John Neuhaus

• When I spoke at ceremonies marking the inauguration of Robert Sloan as president of Baylor University…

Termination for Cause

James F. O'Callaghan

Sir, I had thought the terms of our agreement Were quite clear. You were to provide me…

Malignant Genius

Algis Valiunas

Nietzsche and Music By George Liébert University of Chicago Press, 291 pp. $25 Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and…