American Politics
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Our ship stands off the coast
Our ship stands off the coast. From where we lie, The moss“green hills resemble what we’ve lost:…
Narrowboats
Narrowboats I love the ones most obviously lived in: bicycles and pots of lavender arrayed on a…
Technicians of Learning
Modern institutions talk about themselves. When a corporation refashions itself—undergoes a complete makeover not merely to look…
Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President
Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President by allen c. guelzo eerdmans, 528 pages, $34.25 When Abraham Lincoln entered a…
The Church on the Rocks
The Public Square In the May issue I offered my tribute, written as he was dying, to…
Modernist Impasse, Christian Opportunity
The dawn of a new millennium finds us at what some have called the modernist impasse. During…
The Friendship Club
In 1997, in a seedy back alley just off Fond du Lac Avenue in Milwaukee’s inner city,…
In Plato’s Cave
In Plato’s Cave by alvin b. kernan yale university press, 336 pages, $19.95 After growing up in…
Blaming Bob Jones
Among the nastier and more patently manipulative aspects of the presidential primary season was the accusation by…
The Pope at the National Prayer Breakfast
The National Prayer Breakfast, now in its fiftieth year, has been mainly a Protestant affair, with more…
The Constitution in the Cave
There’s an old and famous story about a community of people who live in a cave. Fires…
Following the Lamb
In its broad outlines, the story of the sixteen Carmelite nuns martyred at Compiègne during the French…
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Imperfect Conceptions:Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects, and Eugenics in Chinaby frank diköttercolumbia university press, 288 pages, $80 The…
Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment: Essential Rights and Liberties
Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment by john witte, jr. and joel a. nichols oxford university press,…
Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus
Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus by thomas cahill anchor, 535 pages,…
