American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Editorial: The Electoral Uses and Abuses of Religion
Like millions of other Americans we cringed more than once at the God-talk of Pat Robertson, Pat…
The Camera and the Sandwich
The late Sam Kinison, an incomparably loud and invariably offensive comedian, once delivered a comedy routine about…
Getting Grover’s Goat
Herbert Grover is the increasingly visible state superintendent of public instruction for Wisconsin and a man determined…
The Goddess That Failed
“All hail to the Goddess,” chanted the berobed and garlanded women, as they stood in a circle,…
The Pope and the Liberal State
It is not hard to understand why when Centesimus Annus was issued in 1991, its economic teachings…
The New Russian Revolution
Russia Transformed: Breakthrough to Hope, August 1991 by james h. billington free press, 202 pages, $19.95 Anyone…
Scripture for the Gender-Correct
The Women’s Bible Commentary edited by carol a. newsom and sharon h. ringe westminster/john knox press, 396…
The Limits of Populism
Populism and Elitism: Politics in the Age of Equality by jeffrey bell regnery gateway, 202 pages, $21.95…
1992 December Letters
Pluralism, Nay & Yea From S. Mark Heim’s discussion of “Pluralism and the Otherness of World Religions”…
Getting the Name Right
Speaking the Christian God: The Holy Trinity and the Challenge of Feminism edited by alvin j. kimel…
Better Than Their Fathers
My fourteen-year-old son has decided he is of the wrong race, culturally at any rate. He wants…
La Belle Tontina
For Nicola I send fond wishes to a horse named TontoAnd you, sweet Nicola, who once was…
An Incredible Lightness of Being
Intellectual Memoirs, 1936–1938 by mary mccarthy harcourt brace jovanovich, 114 pages, $15.95 The novelist and critic Mary…
Remembering Some of the Answers
The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society by arthur m. schlesinger, jr. norton, 160 pages,…
Editorial: Abortion and a Nation at War
Surely, one may devoutly hope, Justice Scalia exaggerates. In his dissent from Planned Parenthood v. Casey (joined…
