American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
What Americans Really Think About Abortion
At the foundation of any democratic society is the principle that the laws that order our lives…
Hindu Nationalism, Indian Democracy
India’s post-independence generation of leaders sought to keep religion at arm’s length from politics, regarding religion as…
Abortion and Political Compromise
Roe v. Wade is clearly in for substantial pruning—possibly even an outright overruling—in the near future. Thus…
Feminism and Feminism
We get these letters saying that we should not refer to “radical feminism” since all feminism is…
Editorial: The Corruption of the Would-Be First Estate
The fourth estate now considers itself to be the first estate, and not without reason. In public…
The Rapist and the Virgin
It may just have been a throwaway line, a presumed witticism, to which he gave little thought;…
Naming Good and Evil
Eighty-one years ago, G. K. Chesterton wrote a book entitled What’s Wrong With the World? His answer to…
Catholicism and the American Proposition
The year 1991 marked the centenary of modern Catholic social teaching—the issuing of the encyclical Rerum Novarum by Pope…
Repent Ye!
Jesus is coming repent Ye!reads the scrawled signof this man who is not John the Baptistbut who…
Safari
The white man has laid down his burdenin the middle of Broadwayand under the exhausted plane treesblack…
The Education Reform Dodge
Smart Schools, Smart Kids: Why Do Some Schools Work? by Edward B. Fiske Simon & Schuster 303…
The American Battlefield
Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America by James Davison Hunter Basic Books, 416 pages, $25 On…
The Naked Public Square: A Metaphor Reconsidered
Christian groups called “Adventist” trace their roots to 1844, the year that some had fixed for the…
Editorial: What Should We Do About the Poor?
Some will protest that the question posed by that title is outrageously wrongheaded. To ask what we…
Utopian Passions
“Workers of the world . . . forgive me.” —Graffiti on a statue of Karl Marx Moscow,…
