American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
What Can We Reasonably Hope For?
It is of course the case that only God knows what will happen in the next century…
Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII
Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII by john cornwell viking, 400 pages, $14.20 As Pius…
American Dreaming
Americans have always thought of their country as other and better than anyplace else. The most obvious…
Man and Machine
Man and Machine William A. Dembski’s “Are We Spiritual Machines?” (October 1999) challenges the spiritualistic materialism of…
The Unheavenly Urban Philosopher
Most of us, in our effort to make sense of life, begin at home: we try, in…
What Aquinas Really Said About Women
In several passages in the Summa Theologiae and elsewhere, Thomas Aquinas asserts that the inferiority of women…
Don’t Write About Race
The cardinal rule of writing about race is: don’t. There are several reasons why. First, it is…
The Bus Stops Here
It’s a sad but unavoidable question: Where did the civil rights movement go wrong? A cause that,…
Abraham Lincoln & the Last Best Hope
The beginning of the ninth century of the millennium now almost past was promising enough. The Congress of…
Human Dignity, Human Rights
Copyright (c) 1999 First Things 97 (November 1999): 39-42. Fifty years ago, a tangle of intellectual and…
Metaphysics Matters
In Defense of Natural Law by robert p. george clarendon/oxford university press, 343 pages, $65 In his…
State vs. Society
Behemoth: Main Currents in the History and Theory of Political Sociology by irving louis horowitz transaction, 474…
The (Mis)Guided Dream of Graham Greene
Graham Greene was a great novelist of a special kind. Unlike many literary practitioners in this century,…
Separation Anxiety
The Church Impotent: The Feminization of Christianity by leon j. podles spence, 350 pages, $20.34 Leon Podles…
Culture War No More?
Most American conservatives think they’re engaged in a culture war, and many of them think they’re losing…
