American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Sorting Us Out

Peter L. Berger

All persons of good will have reason to rejoice over the progress made in recent years in…

Anti-Antiliberalism

Mark C. Henrie

The Anatomy of Antiliberalism by stephen holmes harvard university press, 330 pages, $29.95 As the 1990s bring…

We Are Many

Edward S. Shapiro

A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America by jack wertheimer basic books, 267 pages, $25 The slogan…

The Big Lie Continued

Matthew Berke

Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory by deborah lipstadt free press, 278 pages,…

Why Churches Fail

Benton Johnson

A Generation of Seekers: The Spiritual Journeys of the Baby Boom Generation by wade clark roof harpercollins,…

Homesick in Miami

John J. Miller

The Exile: Cuba in the Heart of Miami by david rieff simon & schuster, 220 pages, $21…

War in the Classroom

Charles L. Glenn

Battleground: One Mother’s Crusade, The Religious Right, and the Struggle for Control of our Classrooms by stephen…

Poisoned Eros

Edward T. Oakes

Love and Friendship by allan bloom simon & schuster, 590 pages, $25 “Christianity gave Eros poison to…

Religion’s Bad Press

Stanley Rothman

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good…

Communal Foundations

Alan L. Mittleman

The Idea of Civil Society by adam seligman free press, 220 pages, $24.95 Adam Seligman’s book, while…

The Bible, Corrected

Robert M. Price

I Corinthians 6:9 Do not be deceived. Neither sexists, nor racists, nor ageists, nor looksists, nor ableists shall…

Getting Real

Kari Jenson Gold

A few months ago my stepdaughter turned eleven. On the verge of adolescence, Stella wonders daily about…

Population Policy: Ideology as Science

Nicholas Eberstadt

In recent years the poorer regions of the earth have been swept by a “population revolution” which,…

The Splendor of Truth: A Symposium

Richard John Neuhaus, Russell Hittinger, L. Gregory Jones, David Burrell, Stanley Hauerwas, Robert P. George, and Hadley Arkes

Richard John Neuhaus In October 1993, Pope John Paul II issued his tenth encyclical, Veritatis Splendor (The Splendor of…

The Origins of Morality

Gilbert Meilaender

The Moral Sense by james q. wilson free press, 300 pages, $22.95 We read books and recommend…