American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Tolerance as Catholic Doctrine
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves,” wrote Abraham Lincoln. Is there any…
Two Paths to Black Power
The process of nominating and confirming Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court served to underline the debate…
A Common Enemy, A Common Cause
On June 24, 1992 the Supreme Court handed down Lee v. Weisman, a decision that declares officially…
Why Pluralism Needs Monism
“Vatican II,” George Weigel writes in Freedom and Its Discontents, “posed a basic challenge to the many…
Evangelicals and Economic Development
Earlier this year I was in charge of “debriefing” a small group of evangelical college students who…
Christianity in the Mirror of Jewish Thought
What do modern Jewish thinkers make of Christianity? Is Christianity in their eyes still the oppressive, pervasive…
Plantation
Too late for the tour and the history lesson,too late in the season on this southern plantation,and…
Pluralism and the Otherness of World Religions
I We have witnessed in recent years the flowering of various Christian pluralistic theologies calling for unequivocal…
Hauerwas Examined
After Christendom? by Stanley Hauerwas Abingdon Press, 192 pages, $12.95 Stanley Hauerwas once told me that After…
Don’t Bet Democratic
Minority Party: Why the Democrats Face Defeat in 1992 and Beyond by Peter Brown Regnery Gateway, 350…
The Feminist as Paranoid
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi Crown, 549 pages, $24 Look out: here…
Character and Poverty
Poverty And Compassion: The Moral Imagination Of The Late Victorians by gertrude himmelfarb knopf, 475 pages, $30…
A Lutheran Affirmation
No Other Gospel! Christianity Among The World Religions by carl e. braaten fortress press, 142 pages, $10.95…
Church-State Conundrums
Original Intent: Chief Justice Rehnquist and the Course of American Church/State Relations by derek davis prometheus books,…
Being Jewish in Public
For a long time, precisely as long as Judaism was marginal to my life, the strict separation…
