American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Harvard Springtime
On Sunday, April 27, one of the large lecture halls at Harvard Divinity School was two-thirds filled…
One Darkest Night
One darkest night I went, aflame with love’s devouring eager burning— O fortunate event!— no witnesses discerning,…
Death Song
From orchards, and gardens, and house I move on, From porcelain and goblets engraved by the potter,…
Building from the Wreckage
In the Ruins of the Church: Sustaining Faith in an Age of Diminished Christianity by R.R. Reno…
Christian Unity: Beginning Again, Again
The Public Square Call it a pause or a hiatus or a bump in the road or…
Secularism at Bay
Among the many notable decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court in the area of religion was the…
Briefly Noted 54
An Introduction to the Christian Orthodox Churches. By John Binns. Cambridge University Press. 270 pp. $22 .…
Hume, Austen, and First Impressions
Saint David,” his friends in Scotland and England called David Hume. And in France, where he spent…
What God Knows
There is a medium-sized theological brouhaha stirring within the evangelical academy these days, and, unlike some of…
Leon Kass and the Genesis of Wisdom
The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis by Leon Kass. Free Press. 576 pp. $35. Leon Kass’ meditation…
Justice Stevens’ Religion Problem
On many occasions the Supreme Court has declared that the religion clause of the First Amendment prohibits…
God in a Godless Time
If someone were to ask: “How do things stand with the ‘God Question?’” many of us would…
The Women of Roe v. Wade
To understand fully the incalculable effects of Roe v. Wade it is necessary (though of course not…
Letters—May 2003
During the course of his provocative essay “The Virtue of Hate” (February), Rabbi Meir Soloveichik refers to…
The Dark Night of Mother Teresa
On October 19, 2003, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) will be beatified in Rome. During the three-and-a-half-year…
