American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Languages of the Rights of Man
Those who once spoke, or who speak, the language of the rights of man make up a…
Religion and the Court 1993
Religious litigants claimed victories in all four cases involving religious freedom to reach the Supreme Court this…
Human Rights in Vienna
One can learn from unfortunate experiences. This truism applies in spades to the World Conference on Human…
Ritenuto: With My Daughter at the Lake
The Falls Road northern light was fading gray: a sudden snowfall swept us eastward like a curtain…
Was Burke a Conservative?
The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography and Commented Anthology of Edmund Burke by conor cruise o’brien university…
After Hell
Against All Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America by william b. helmreich…
Democracy’s Discontents
Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America by robert hughes oxford university press, 210 pages, $19.95 This…
Syllabus Errorum
God’s Politician: Pope John Paul II, the Catholic Church, and the New World Order by david willey…
Bat
I hang upsidedown from the roof of your skull sleeping—my wings crossed over me like Pharaoh’s arms,…
Recruiting for the Revolution
The Public Square The Nation is ecstatic. Its cover story “The Gay Moment” evinces high confidence that…
In a Dark Country Night
I see one bumblebee heading over the fence and into the doorway of this shrunken Old Field’s…
Crime and the Cure of the Soul
Those of us who believe that our social and political order rests on moral foundations applaud William…
The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Corrected
(chanted to no tune in particular) BEFORE: by Julia Ward Howe Mine eyes have seen the glory…
Tiresias
I have walked now for days on end with my eyes closed, thoughts centered at the point…
A Smith for All Seasons
Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society by jerry z. muller free press,…
