American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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,…
Old Ghosts
Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America by john earl haynes and harvey klehr yale university press, 475…
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…
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…
The Mozart Effect
It can cure backache. And asthma. And obesity, writer’s block, alcoholism, schizophrenia, prejudice, heart disease, drug addiction,…
The Future of the End of Democracy
If you want to know why the United States is in a constitutional crisis, a good place…
A Third Way?
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by edward…
How the Court Became Supreme
The past half-century has witnessed the rise to prominence of a constitutional theory that gives the U.S.…
