American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

The Archetypes in the Machine

John J. Reilly

TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information by erik davis harmony, 368 pages, $18.19…

Augustine Then and Now

Glenn Tinder

Living in Two Cities: Augustinian Trajectories in Political Thought by eugene teselle university of scraton press, 227…

Columbus and the Beginning of the World

Robert Royal

As Orson Welles famously remarked, playing the unscrupulous Harry Lime in the film The Third Man: “In…

“Saving” the Poor

Daniel P. Moloney

The poor will always be with us. Yet, pace Cain, we have an obligation to look after…

Impoverished Theology

Gregory Wolfe

The Character of God: Recovering the Lost Literary Power of American Protestantism by thomas e. jenkins oxford,…

The Elusive Hamilton

George McKenna

Alexander Hamilton, American  by richard brookhiser simon & schuster, 240 pages, $7 National Review senior editor Richard…

The Sexual Counterrevolution

Sarah E. Hinlicky

A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue by wendy shalit free press, 304 pages, $13.91 Despite…

The Mozart Effect

Michael Linton

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

J. Budziszewski

If you want to know why the United States is in a constitutional crisis, a good place…

A Third Way?

Irving Louis Horowitz

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by edward…

How the Court Became Supreme

Robert Lowry Clinton

The past half-century has witnessed the rise to prominence of a constitutional theory that gives the U.S.…

What Aquinas Never Said About Women

Michael Nolan

If the first casualty of war is the unwelcome truth, the first tool of the discontented is…

Popes for All Seasons

Thomas F. X. Noble

God’s Representatives: The Eight Twentieth-century Popes by james bentleyconstable. 200 pages, £16.95 . Saints and Sinners: A History…

The New Populism

Dean C. Curry

The Great Betrayal by patrick j. buchanan little, brown. 384 pp. $22.95 Readers of a certain age…

The Secularist Faith

Michael Novak

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor By David…