American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Good Restaurants in Gomorrah
We scratch where it itches and even the most casual observer of the Episcopal Church knows that…
Infanticide for Beginners
It was the issue of abortion that taught me to be suspicious of the word “reform.” It…
Roe: Twenty-Five Years Later
Twenty-five years ago, on January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States, in what numerous…
Not a Ghost of a Chance
Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by antonia fraser doubleday, 347 pages, $6.31 The…
Saving Liberalism’s Soul
The Growth of the Liberal Soul by david walsh university of missouri press, $33.20 On good liberal…
Episcopalians: The Leftward Center
The modern Episcopal Church is the oddest of churches: scrupulous about maintaining tradition in matters of worship…
The Unraveling of Scientific Materialism
In a retrospective essay on Carl Sagan in the January 9, 1997 New York Review of Books,…
Remembering the Riots
Of the various disasters that littered the 1960s, none was more deleterious in its effects than the…
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
The writers and filmmakers of science fiction have been bold in depicting what life will be like…
The Supreme Court 1997
To help the reader understand the background of the following commentaries, we asked Robert P. George of…
August/September Letters
Favoritism vs. Nondiscrimination? In the April issue of First Things (“God and Bigotry at Yale,” Public Square),…
Conflicting Worlds of Welfare Reform
The welfare reform that Congress passed last year ends unlimited federal aid to poor families and limits…
Who Elected Clinton: A Collision of Values
If you believe the conventional wisdom, the 1996 elections were “valueless.” And indeed, moral concerns played a…
April in Black and White
April was a month crowded with events in America’s continuing muddled encounter with the dilemmas of race.…
Debriefing the Philosophers
There are many schools of thought to which an American philosopher may belong, but there is still…
