American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Liberalism vs. Religious Freedom

Mark C. Henrie

Religious Liberty in the Supreme Court: The Cases that Define the Debate over Church and State terry…

Abortion Facts and Feelings

Hadley Arkes

The story is told of a young student from an exotic place, a colonial dependency of Britain,…

Rites of Spring

Peter L. Berger

Office of Wellness California State University at Poco To: The Poco Community From: Chelsea Rabinowitz-Hakamoto, Wellness Coordinator…

Cosmic Questions

John Farrell

Dreams of a Final Theory by steven weinberg pantheon, 338 pages, $25 In the second-to-last chapter of…

The Fifties Without Soul

Thomas Sieger Derr

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

Graeme Hunter

Most Christian thinkers have viewed evil as a privation, a derivative reality, like a shadow. Shadows are…

Legal Ethics—Worlds in Collision

Mary Ann Glendon

Chicago’s financial district and the seat of its city government are only a few blocks apart, yet…

Christian Conviction & Democratic Etiquette

George Weigel

According to a bit of street wisdom that has worked its way into the national vocabulary, “You…

The Homosexual Movement

The Ramsey Colloquium

I. The New Thing Homosexual behavior is a phenomenon with a long history, to which there have…

A New Heaven and a New Earth

Kathy Kersten

“RE-imagining,” a conference “by women for women and men,” marked the midpoint of the World Council of…

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,…

A President in Process

James Nuechterlein

It turns out, in retrospect, to have been a most ironically timed meeting. The White House Communications…

Poland: Reflections on a New World

Richard John Neuhaus

For a national capital, Warsaw is very new and, finally, unconvincing as a city. After World War…

Psychology and the Abolition of Meaning

Jeffrey Burke Satinover

It is of course a commonplace nowadays to observe that we are living in the era of…