American Politics

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Assassins of a Lesser God

Paul V. Mankowski

Jesus: A Life by A. N. Wilson Norton, 269 pages, $22.95 Live from Golgotha by Gore Vidal…

Fighting on Three Fronts

David Novak

Jewish Polemics by arthur hertzberg columbia university press, 259 pages, $27.95 Jewish Polemics is a collection of…

The Last Protestant

James Nuechterlein

A Far Glory: The Quest for Faith in an Age of Credulity by peter l. berger free…

After the Fall

Michael Hanby

The Final Revolution: The Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism by George Weigel Oxford University Press,…

The Scholar as Polemicist

Alan L. Mittleman

Judaism: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow by hans küng, translated by john bowden crossroad, 753 pages, $39.50 Readers…

Dr. Death Speaks

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the retired pathologist who, as of this writing, has helped put…

Salt

Brother John Boyd, OSB

Too often Truth is out of favor Softened To a fault Yet, I hold fast To Christ—the…

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Uses and Abuses of the Christian Right Your editorial “The Electoral Uses and Abuses of Religion” (December…

Earthworm

William North

Seven meters an hour, top speed, pulling closer the edge of asphalt you cannot see. Mizzling rain…

The Newtape File: I

Jean Bethke Elshtain

As compiled by Jean Bethke Elshtain, she having discovered a mysterious virus in her computer one day…

The Death of Superman

Herbert London

The man of steel, the one who routinely saved the planet from the ravages of evil invaders,…

Monkeys, MacKinnon & Marriage

George A. Tobin

Twenty years ago, the U.S. Army directed me to help monkeys copulate. In order to carry out…

Mainline Churches: The Real Reason for Decline

Benton Johnson, Dean R. Hoge & Donald A. Luidens

America’s so-called mainline Protestant churches aren’t what they used to be. For generations on end, the Methodists,…

The Bible: Unexamined Commitments of Criticism

Jon D. Levenson

Ten years ago I had an experience that made me vividly aware of the two worlds with…

Generic Male, Endangered Gender?

Olivia Vlahos

“Just like a man!” The unspoken judgment trembled palpably on the airwaves as four powerful women—a television…