American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Hatred Under Ice?
There is by now a well-established conventional view about the eruptions of ethnic hatred in Eastern Europe…
Cosmic Questions
Dreams of a Final Theory by steven weinberg pantheon, 338 pages, $25 In the second-to-last chapter of…
The Fifties Without Soul
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
Most Christian thinkers have viewed evil as a privation, a derivative reality, like a shadow. Shadows are…
Legal Ethics—Worlds in Collision
Chicago’s financial district and the seat of its city government are only a few blocks apart, yet…
Christian Conviction & Democratic Etiquette
According to a bit of street wisdom that has worked its way into the national vocabulary, “You…
The Homosexual Movement
I. The New Thing Homosexual behavior is a phenomenon with a long history, to which there have…
A New Heaven and a New Earth
“RE-imagining,” a conference “by women for women and men,” marked the midpoint of the World Council of…
Rites of Spring
Office of Wellness California State University at Poco To: The Poco Community From: Chelsea Rabinowitz-Hakamoto, Wellness Coordinator…
A President in Process
It turns out, in retrospect, to have been a most ironically timed meeting. The White House Communications…
Poland: Reflections on a New World
For a national capital, Warsaw is very new and, finally, unconvincing as a city. After World War…
Psychology and the Abolition of Meaning
It is of course a commonplace nowadays to observe that we are living in the era of…
The Liberalism That We Need
The God who gave us life gave us liberty.—Thomas Jefferson They clamor for freedom—God, make them heed.…
Woodstock Comes to Washington
If any further proof were needed that the Woodstock generation has taken over the federal government, President…
A Peculiar Little Test
Every two or three years, at a small, elite New England university, I offer a graduate-level course…
