American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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,…
The Other Okies
Rising in the West by dan morgan knopf, 532 pages, $25 Just when you thought it was…
Assassins of a Lesser God
Jesus: A Life by A. N. Wilson Norton, 269 pages, $22.95 Live from Golgotha by Gore Vidal…
Fighting on Three Fronts
Jewish Polemics by arthur hertzberg columbia university press, 259 pages, $27.95 Jewish Polemics is a collection of…
The Last Protestant
A Far Glory: The Quest for Faith in an Age of Credulity by peter l. berger free…
After the Fall
The Final Revolution: The Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism by George Weigel Oxford University Press,…
The Scholar as Polemicist
Judaism: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow by hans küng, translated by john bowden crossroad, 753 pages, $39.50 Readers…
