American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
Women, Ordination, and Angels
When Dr. George Carey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, visited Pope John Paul II in May 1992, the…
Momento Mori
What do the living know / about the dead? I was called upon / to wonder when…
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…
The Death of Superman
The man of steel, the one who routinely saved the planet from the ravages of evil invaders,…
Monkeys, MacKinnon & Marriage
Twenty years ago, the U.S. Army directed me to help monkeys copulate. In order to carry out…
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
The Duomo cathedral hung its own weather / above you. A light fog, full-massed as gray silk,…
