American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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,…
Illusory Compromise
Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education by gerald graff norton, 214…
Immigration and the Aliens Among Us
The Public Square Like many American Jews, Martin Peretz, editor in chief of The New Republic, had…
The Newtape File V
Dear Nephew, my plutonic sprout, I am pleased as punch (spiked with Demon Rum, of course) at…
To Read and to Live
In 1956, W.H. Auden returned to an Oxford University from which he had graduated almost thirty years…
Jewish Ethics Engaged
Jewish Social Ethics by david novak oxford university press, 252 pages, $39.95 The renowned scholar of Talmudic…
Men and Women—Can We Be Friends?
In Xenophon’s Oeconomicus, Socrates and Critobulus are discussing household management, in which the wife plays a major…
Living at the Borders: Eastern Orthodoxy and World
Five years ago, well before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the National Geographic Society had anticipated…
Drouth
I invoke the air in rage, am like a cancer in a cage— only myself to burn,…
The Newtape File IV
Dear Nephew, my impish one, You seem to have grasped the point about eviscerating distinctions of any…
Music of the Spheres
In the beginning there was no beginning; no no; no was; no in; no there— nothing that…
