American Politics

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Simple Anna

Kent Gramm

Simple Anna liked the words although she didn’t understand what many of them meant. Her man sometimes…

For Duns Scotus

Mark P. Shea

Under the dome-sky oneness  translucent and unincarnate as thought, blank as unburnt light, the hope of thisness…

The Problem of Power

Mark C. Henrie

The Nature of Politics: Selected Essays of Bertrand de Jouvenel edited by dennis hale and marc landy…

Beyond the Mainline Tale

Walter Sundberg

The Churching of America, 1776–1990: Winners and Losers In Our Religious Economy by roger finke and rodney…

Jonathan Edwards & the Public Square

Mark A. Noll

One Holy and Happy Society: The Public Theology of Jonathan Edwards by gerald r. mcdermott pennsylvania state…

A Modern Pilgrim’s Progress

Matthew Scully

Saints & Sinners: Walter Railey, Jimmy Swaggart, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, Anton LeVay, Will Campbell, Matthew Fox by…

A Word on “The Competition”

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square So it has come to this. Fifty-two years ago, the great Reinhold Niebuhr and…

Athens and Jerusalem, Again

Peter J. Leithart

President Clinton’s push to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military has been called many things:…

God and Evolution: An Exchange

Howard J. Van Till/Phillip E. Johnson

I Howard J. Van Till Although the rhetoric Phillip E. Johnson employs in his article “Creator or…

The Homesick Homeless

Molly Finn

Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy by jay tolson simon & schuster, 544 pages,…

Man in a Glacier

Kent Gramm

The mountainside failed. But when  we saw that deep spot the dead sun  came back heavy as…

Against Peer Fear

Richard John Neuhaus

In response to many inquiries, we are pleased to report that Father Neuhaus continues to recover very…

Black Spruce

William North

From a distance  it looked like ordinary  wood, a snuff-colored twig one might rake for burning. Surfaced …

National Service as Duty and Perk

Midge Decter

I know a man who spends four or five weeks of every year in the army. He…

Contraries

James Andrew Miller

Tell me everything you know, the sapient sage asked the seeker, and, since the former was, in…