American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
Against Peer Fear
In response to many inquiries, we are pleased to report that Father Neuhaus continues to recover very…
Black Spruce
From a distance / it looked like ordinary / wood, a snuff-colored twig...
National Service as Duty and Perk
I know a man who spends four or five weeks of every year in the army. He…
Contraries
Tell me everything you know, the sapient sage asked the seeker, and, since the former was, /…
The Skimpole Syndrome: Childhood Unlimited
Let me re-introduce you to Mr. Harold Skimpole. Skimpole lives in the pages of Charles Dickens’ Bleak…
Aceldama
Eternity is uncorrupted light; / the world proceeds by interrupting sight, / exchanging day and night. ...
