American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

It’s the Culture, Stupid

Lyman A. Kellstedt, John C. Green, James L. Guth & Corwin E. Smidt

What really happened in the 1992 presidential election? And what does it tell us about American politics…

Liberalism vs. Religious Freedom

Mark C. Henrie

Religious Liberty in the Supreme Court: The Cases that Define the Debate over Church and State terry…

Abortion Facts and Feelings

Hadley Arkes

The story is told of a young student from an exotic place, a colonial dependency of Britain,…

Hatred Under Ice?

Peter L. Berger

There is by now a well-established conventional view about the eruptions of ethnic hatred in Eastern Europe…

Cosmic Questions

John Farrell

Dreams of a Final Theory by steven weinberg pantheon, 338 pages, $25 In the second-to-last chapter of…

The Fifties Without Soul

Thomas Sieger Derr

This is not a book review, it’s a complaint. I have been reading—and, I confess, enormously enjoying—David…

Evil: Back in Bad Company

Graeme Hunter

Most Christian thinkers have viewed evil as a privation, a derivative reality, like a shadow. Shadows are…

Legal Ethics—Worlds in Collision

Mary Ann Glendon

Chicago’s financial district and the seat of its city government are only a few blocks apart, yet…

Christian Conviction & Democratic Etiquette

George Weigel

According to a bit of street wisdom that has worked its way into the national vocabulary, “You…

The Homosexual Movement

The Ramsey Colloquium

I. The New Thing Homosexual behavior is a phenomenon with a long history, to which there have…

A New Heaven and a New Earth

Kathy Kersten

“RE-imagining,” a conference “by women for women and men,” marked the midpoint of the World Council of…

Rites of Spring

Peter L. Berger

Office of Wellness California State University at Poco To: The Poco Community From: Chelsea Rabinowitz-Hakamoto, Wellness Coordinator…

Poland: Reflections on a New World

Richard John Neuhaus

For a national capital, Warsaw is very new and, finally, unconvincing as a city. After World War…

Psychology and the Abolition of Meaning

Jeffrey Burke Satinover

It is of course a commonplace nowadays to observe that we are living in the era of…

The Liberalism That We Need

Maciej Zieba

The God who gave us life gave us liberty.—Thomas Jefferson They clamor for freedom—God, make them heed.…