American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Was Burke a Conservative?
The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography and Commented Anthology of Edmund Burke by conor cruise o’brien university…
The Origins of Morality
The Moral Sense by james q. wilson free press, 300 pages, $22.95 We read books and recommend…
Justice Lite
Political Liberalism by john rawls columbia university press, 401 pages, $29.95 Americans are justifiably anxious about the…
Still Strangers
Jews in Christian America: The Pursuit of Religious Equality by naomi w. cohen oxford university press, 300…
Speaking for the Common Good
The Public Square Receiving no attention that we noticed in the general press, and slight attention in…
Moderately Religious, Desperately Sexual
The most surprising thing about The Janus Report on Human Sexuality (John Wiley & Sons) is that…
Wishing People Dead
Christine Busalacchi, a Missouri woman suffering from serious brain damage, died on the 8th of March, 1993.…
The Languages of the Rights of Man
Those who once spoke, or who speak, the language of the rights of man make up a…
Religion and the Court 1993
Religious litigants claimed victories in all four cases involving religious freedom to reach the Supreme Court this…
Human Rights in Vienna
One can learn from unfortunate experiences. This truism applies in spades to the World Conference on Human…
Ritenuto: With My Daughter at the Lake
The Falls Road northern light was fading gray: / a sudden snowfall swept us eastward like /…
Tiresias
I have walked now for days on end / with my eyes closed, thoughts / centered at…
After Hell
Against All Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America by william b. helmreich…
Democracy’s Discontents
Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America by robert hughes oxford university press, 210 pages, $19.95 This…
Syllabus Errorum
God’s Politician: Pope John Paul II, the Catholic Church, and the New World Order by david willey…
