American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Dirty Jokes and Freedom in America
Two years ago Frank Rich was moved from his op-ed column to a space in the Sunday…
Realism
The world that welcomed the divorce / Of word and thing is now outmoded. ...
Briefly Noted 9
John Buridan: Portrait of a Fourteenth-Century Arts Master. By Jack Zupko. University of Notre Dame Press. 550…
Max Weber Goes Global
In the century since Max Weber published The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, the book…
Who Wants War? An Exchange
Paul J. Griffiths The intense debate in the United States since September 11 about the meaning, history,…
The Language of Belief
Faith of Our Fathers: Reflections on Catholic Tradition by Eamon Duffy Continuum. 187 pp. $16.95 Faith of…
Speaking About the Unspeakable
Don’t talk about it. The more we talk about it, the more we make it seem normal.…
Tsunami and Theodicy
No one, no matter how great the scope of his imagination, should be able easily to absorb…
While We’re At It
• There are these advertisements in the Times Literary Supplement for T-shirts inscribed with the words of…
Lift Me, Lord
Lift me, Lord, for I fall and nothing stays me, / loveless and heedless, without faith or…
Talking to Lord Newborough
(Lt. William Charles Wynn, 1873-1916, 4th Baron Newborough, whose grave overlooks the Vale of Ffestiniog in North…
The Right Wrongs
The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in the Age of Terror by Michael Ignatieff Princeton University Press, 212…
Maritain’s True Humanism
In the course of his long life, French philosopher Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) adopted a series of different…
The Bad Divorce
We’re Still Family: What Grown Children Have to Say About Their Parents’ Divorceby constance ahrons harpercollins 304 pages $24.95…
Orthodoxy and Reticence
It has been forty years since my revered teacher Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, popularly known as “the Rav”…
