American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Liberating Germaine Greer
I never met Germaine Greer, but I did see her once in live performance—and a most diverting…
Are We Spiritual Machines?
Copyright (c) 1999 First Things 96 (October 1999): 25-31. For two hundred years materialist philosophers have argued…
A Confederate Theodicy
A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South.By Eugene…
The Idea of Moral Progress
Almost everybody agrees that progress is a good thing. But most self-evidently good things, when examined more…
Calvin and the Christian Calling
The sixteenth century was a period of tumultuous change in Western Europe. The need for some kind…
Letter from Budapest
Murderous cruise missiles crash into factories, office buildings, farm houses, all just across the border in Serbia,…
1642 and All That
The Cousins’ Wars: Religion, Politics, Civil Warfare, and the Triumph of Anglo-America by kevin philips basic, 651…
The Archetypes in the Machine
TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information by erik davis harmony, 368 pages, $18.19…
Augustine Then and Now
Living in Two Cities: Augustinian Trajectories in Political Thought by eugene teselle university of scraton press, 227…
Columbus and the Beginning of the World
As Orson Welles famously remarked, playing the unscrupulous Harry Lime in the film The Third Man: “In…
“Saving” the Poor
The poor will always be with us. Yet, pace Cain, we have an obligation to look after…
Old Ghosts
Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America by john earl haynes and harvey klehr yale university press, 475…
Impoverished Theology
The Character of God: Recovering the Lost Literary Power of American Protestantism by thomas e. jenkins oxford,…
The Elusive Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton, American by richard brookhiser simon & schuster, 240 pages, $7 National Review senior editor Richard…
The Sexual Counterrevolution
A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue by wendy shalit free press, 304 pages, $13.91 Despite…
