American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
Beyond the Mainline Tale
The Churching of America, 1776–1990: Winners and Losers In Our Religious Economy by roger finke and rodney…
Jonathan Edwards & the Public Square
One Holy and Happy Society: The Public Theology of Jonathan Edwards by gerald r. mcdermott pennsylvania state…
A Modern Pilgrim’s Progress
Saints & Sinners: Walter Railey, Jimmy Swaggart, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, Anton LeVay, Will Campbell, Matthew Fox by…
A Word on “The Competition”
The Public Square So it has come to this. Fifty-two years ago, the great Reinhold Niebuhr and…
Domesticating Darwin
In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought by carl…
An Authentic Modernity
The Ethics of Authenticity by charles taylor harvard university press, 142 pages, $17.95 To grow up in…
The Newtape File III
Dear Nephew, I trust it did not escape your notice that I have eliminated an affectionate diminutive…
The Homesick Homeless
Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy by jay tolson simon & schuster, 544 pages,…
Man in a Glacier
The mountainside failed. But when / we saw that deep spot the dead sun / came back…
