American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Wishing People Dead

Nancy L. Harvey

Christine Busalacchi, a Missouri woman suffering from serious brain damage, died on the 8th of March, 1993.…

The Languages of the Rights of Man

Philippe Bénéton

Those who once spoke, or who speak, the language of the rights of man make up a…

Religion and the Court 1993

Raul F. Yanes and Mary Ann Glendon

Religious litigants claimed victories in all four cases involving religious freedom to reach the Supreme Court this…

Human Rights in Vienna

James Finn

One can learn from unfortunate experiences. This truism applies in spades to the World Conference on Human…

Ritenuto: With My Daughter at the Lake

Hannah Strauss

The Falls Road northern light was fading gray: / a sudden snowfall swept us eastward like /…

Tiresias

Travis DuPriest

I have walked now for days on end / with my eyes closed, thoughts / centered at…

After Hell

Amity Shlaes

Against All Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America by william b. helmreich…

Democracy’s Discontents

John P. Sisk

Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America by robert hughes oxford university press, 210 pages, $19.95 This…

Syllabus Errorum

George Weigel

God’s Politician: Pope John Paul II, the Catholic Church, and the New World Order by david willey…

Bat

Robert Siegel

I hang upsidedown from the roof of your skull / sleeping—my wings crossed over me / like…

Recruiting for the Revolution

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square The Nation is ecstatic. Its cover story “The Gay Moment” evinces high confidence that…

In a Dark Country Night

Katherine Soniat

I see one bumblebee heading / over the fence and into the doorway / of this shrunken…

Crime and the Cure of the Soul

Charles W. Colson

Those of us who believe that our social and political order rests on moral foundations applaud William…

The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Corrected

Paul V. Mankowski

(chanted to no tune in particular) BEFORE: by Julia Ward Howe Mine eyes have seen the glory…

A Smith for All Seasons

Michael Novak

Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society by jerry z. muller free press,…