American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Illusory Compromise
Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education by gerald graff norton, 214…
Immigration and the Aliens Among Us
The Public Square Like many American Jews, Martin Peretz, editor in chief of The New Republic, had…
The Newtape File V
Dear Nephew, my plutonic sprout, I am pleased as punch (spiked with Demon Rum, of course) at…
Athens and Jerusalem, Again
President Clinton’s push to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military has been called many things:…
God and Evolution: An Exchange
I Howard J. Van Till Although the rhetoric Phillip E. Johnson employs in his article “Creator or…
To Read and to Live
In 1956, W.H. Auden returned to an Oxford University from which he had graduated almost thirty years…
Jewish Ethics Engaged
Jewish Social Ethics by david novak oxford university press, 252 pages, $39.95 The renowned scholar of Talmudic…
Men and Women—Can We Be Friends?
In Xenophon’s Oeconomicus, Socrates and Critobulus are discussing household management, in which the wife plays a major…
Living at the Borders: Eastern Orthodoxy and World
Five years ago, well before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the National Geographic Society had anticipated…
Drouth
I invoke the air in rage, / am like a cancer in a cage— / only myself…
The Newtape File IV
Dear Nephew, my impish one, You seem to have grasped the point about eviscerating distinctions of any…
Music of the Spheres
In the beginning there was no beginning; / no no; no was; no in; no there— /…
Simple Anna
Simple Anna liked the words / although she didn’t understand / what many of them meant. Her…
For Duns Scotus
Under the dome-sky oneness / translucent and unincarnate as thought, / blank as unburnt light...
The Problem of Power
The Nature of Politics: Selected Essays of Bertrand de Jouvenel edited by dennis hale and marc landy…
