American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Post-Communism and Its Discontents
In the exciting days of November 1989, during the occupation strike at Charles University in Prague, the…
Living Under Authority
Chinese astronomers Hi and Ho were put to death for failing to foretell the solar eclipse of…
I Heart New York
When the Editor-in-Chief of this journal invited me to come East to work with him and his…
God, Man, and H. L. Mencken
Mencken: A Lifeby fred hobsonrandom house, 650 pages, $35 H. L. Mencken, My Life as Author and…
The Ultimately Liberal Condition
Things are in the saddle and ride mankind,” complained Ralph Waldo Emerson a century and a half…
The Case for Immigration
Immigration and Immigrants: Setting the Record Straight by michael fix and jeffrey s. passel urban institute, 104…
The Capital of Ambivalence
Modernity and Crises of Identity: Culture and Society in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna by jacques le rider translated by…
The Religious Right as Terrible Threat, Utter Irrelevance, or Something Else
The cover of the New Republic picture this big thick book titled The Constitution of the United…
Killing Abortionists: A Symposium
Paul J. Hill, convicted of killing an abortionist and his security guard in Pensacola, Florida, has advanced…
Christianity and the West
The importance of Christianity in the formation of Western civilization can hardly be denied. That importance is…
On Bringing One’s Life to a Point
In February of 1994, in what was its March issue, First Things published a statement on the…
Life at the Intellectual Barricades
“But why do you have to be so polemical?” It’s a not unfamiliar complaint (see, for example,…
Jungians and Gnostics
Heresies perish not with their authors, but like the river Arethusa, though they lose their currents in…
Learning from Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre is not, to put it mildly, very high on the reading list of those seeking…
The Hipster and the Organization Man
From all appearances, it is now back in style to be critical of American individualism. Indeed, that…
