American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Sex and the Single Life
What is it that Christians ought to say and do about the issue of sexual relations between…
Grandparents
Thinking of my grandparents, / I stand for a moment on the curb / of a street…
The World’s Oldest Virtue
Whenever there is a contest between etiquette and acknowledged virtues, etiquette loses. Hardly anyone would dispute the…
Saving the World
In the Fall 1991 issue of New Perspectives Quarterly , which is very usefully devoted to the…
St. Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years 1903–1939 by martin stannard norton (1987), 537 pages, $10.95 paper Evelyn Waugh: The…
Choice Trees
In primal garden / the tree / stands laden...
Homosexuality and the Moral Order
President Clinton’s decision to lift the ban against homosexuals in the military has opened a deep cultural…
Ignorant Armies
The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism by ronald l. numbers knopf, 458 pages, $27.50 Ronald L.…
Why That God Failed
Retreat from the Finland Station: Moral Odysseys in the Breakdown of Communism by kenneth murphy free press,…
Educating for Freedom?
An Aristocracy of Everyone: The Politics of Education and The Future of America by benjamin r. barber…
Attention Must Be Paid
Multiculturalism and “The Politics of Recognition” an essay by charles taylor with commentary by amy gutmann (editor),…
What Is To Be Learned From “The Church in Socialism”
The Public Square At Boston University’s Institute for the Study of Economic Culture, headed by sociologist Peter…
The Newtape File II
Dear Nephew, my hellborn one, Ah, how I delight in writing you as my esteemed Uncle, Screwtape,…
Walker Percy and the Christian Scandal
In Washington, where he was to give the eighteenth Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on May 3,…
Picture Perfect: The Politics of Prenatal Testing
During the past two decades, prenatal screening for fetal defects has become a standard part of nearly…
