American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Contraries
Tell me everything you know, the sapient sage asked the seeker, and, since the former was, in…
The Skimpole Syndrome: Childhood Unlimited
Let me re-introduce you to Mr. Harold Skimpole. Skimpole lives in the pages of Charles Dickens’ Bleak…
Aceldama
Eternity is uncorrupted light; the world proceeds by interrupting sight, exchanging day and night. Half the acts…
Sex and the Single Life
What is it that Christians ought to say and do about the issue of sexual relations between…
Grandparents
Thinking of my grandparents, I stand for a moment on the curb of a street they often…
The World’s Oldest Virtue
Whenever there is a contest between etiquette and acknowledged virtues, etiquette loses. Hardly anyone would dispute the…
Saving the World
In the Fall 1991 issue of New Perspectives Quarterly , which is very usefully devoted to the…
St. Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years 1903–1939 by martin stannard norton (1987), 537 pages, $10.95 paper Evelyn Waugh: The…
Choice Trees
In primal garden the tree stands laden, splendor consummate, grace-rooted, owned by him who warns, don’t eat…
Domesticating Darwin
In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought by carl…
An Authentic Modernity
The Ethics of Authenticity by charles taylor harvard university press, 142 pages, $17.95 To grow up in…
The Newtape File III
Dear Nephew, I trust it did not escape your notice that I have eliminated an affectionate diminutive…
The Homesick Homeless
Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy by jay tolson simon & schuster, 544 pages,…
Man in a Glacier
The mountainside failed. But when we saw that deep spot the dead sun came back heavy as…
Ignorant Armies
The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism by ronald l. numbers knopf, 458 pages, $27.50 Ronald L.…
