American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Momento Mori
What do the living know about the dead? I was called upon to wonder when the well-meaning…
Jesus Through the Eyes of John Rawls
Of late I have been reading John B. Meier’s A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. I…
Homosexuality and the Moral Order
President Clinton’s decision to lift the ban against homosexuals in the military has opened a deep cultural…
Mainline Churches: The Real Reason for Decline
America’s so-called mainline Protestant churches aren’t what they used to be. For generations on end, the Methodists,…
Nihilism and the End of Law
When President Bush nominated Judge Clarence Thomas to a vacancy on the United States Supreme Court, liberals…
Other Plans: Journal of an Illness
I Ihad spent most of Saturday, February 29, 1992, Leap Year Day, working through a stack of…
About That Stolen Moment
“. . . saw little of note except. . . fortunately the Duomo was on that walk.…
The Other Okies
Rising in the West by dan morgan knopf, 532 pages, $25 Just when you thought it was…
Assassins of a Lesser God
Jesus: A Life by A. N. Wilson Norton, 269 pages, $22.95 Live from Golgotha by Gore Vidal…
Fighting on Three Fronts
Jewish Polemics by arthur hertzberg columbia university press, 259 pages, $27.95 Jewish Polemics is a collection of…
The Last Protestant
A Far Glory: The Quest for Faith in an Age of Credulity by peter l. berger free…
After the Fall
The Final Revolution: The Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism by George Weigel Oxford University Press,…
The Scholar as Polemicist
Judaism: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow by hans küng, translated by john bowden crossroad, 753 pages, $39.50 Readers…
Dr. Death Speaks
The Public Square Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the retired pathologist who, as of this writing, has helped put…
Salt
Too often Truth is out of favor Softened To a fault Yet, I hold fast To Christ—the…
