American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Bob Casey’s Revenge
I can’t believe I’m losing to this idiot. So said John Kerry during the presidential campaign. Judging…
Rival Immortalities
Human Dignity in the Biotech Century: A Christian Vision for Public Policy edited by Chrles W. Colson…
Briefly Noted 6
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason By Sam Harris W.W. Norton 256pp.…
The Politics of Gratitude
Coriolanus is far from being the most popular of Shakespeare’s plays, but many of us remember the…
Letters—December 2004
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
Christopher Lasch’s untimely death in 1994 deprived America of its most loving critic, a man who in…
Strange Science
Global warming has achieved the status of a major threat. It inspires nightmares of a troubled future…
Us and Them
Six months out of grad school and into our first jobs, my husband and I fell in…
While We’re At It
• When I spoke at ceremonies marking the inauguration of Robert Sloan as president of Baylor University…
Termination for Cause
Sir, I had thought the terms of our agreement Were quite clear. You were to provide me…
Malignant Genius
Nietzsche and Music By George Liébert University of Chicago Press, 291 pp. $25 Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and…
The Witness of Czeslaw Milosz
Czeslaw Milosz was born in Szetejnie in 1911 and raised in Wilno, both of which are in…
Drawing the Line Against Torture
The outrages committed by Americans at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq justly sparked worldwide protest. Never mind…
Don’t Call it Proselytism
Don’t Call it Proselytism by Lawrence A. Uzzell Several years ago, during an interview I was conducting…
While We’re At It
• In Hilaire Belloc’s Cautionary Tales, there is a poem about the unfortunate “Jim” who gets eaten…
