American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Why Pluralism Needs Monism

Peter J. Leithart

“Vatican II,” George Weigel writes in Freedom and Its Discontents, “posed a basic challenge to the many…

Evangelicals and Economic Development

Amy L. Sherman

Earlier this year I was in charge of “debriefing” a small group of evangelical college students who…

Christianity in the Mirror of Jewish Thought

Alan L. Mittleman

What do modern Jewish thinkers make of Christianity? Is Christianity in their eyes still the oppressive, pervasive…

Plantation

Ellie Shumaker

Too late for the tour and the history lesson,too late in the season on this southern plantation,and…

Pluralism and the Otherness of World Religions

S. Mark Heim

I We have witnessed in recent years the flowering of various Christian pluralistic theologies calling for unequivocal…

Hauerwas Examined

Robert W. Jenson

After Christendom? by Stanley Hauerwas Abingdon Press, 192 pages, $12.95 Stanley Hauerwas once told me that After…

Don’t Bet Democratic

William McGurn

Minority Party: Why the Democrats Face Defeat in 1992 and Beyond by Peter Brown Regnery Gateway, 350…

The Feminist as Paranoid

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi Crown, 549 pages, $24 Look out: here…

Character and Poverty

Jerry Z. Muller

Poverty And Compassion: The Moral Imagination Of The Late Victorians by gertrude himmelfarb knopf, 475 pages, $30…

A Lutheran Affirmation

Leslie Newbigin

No Other Gospel! Christianity Among The World Religions by carl e. braaten fortress press, 142 pages, $10.95…

Church-State Conundrums

Keith Pavlischek

Original Intent: Chief Justice Rehnquist and the Course of American Church/State Relations by derek davis prometheus books,…

Being Jewish in Public

Jerold S. Auerbach

For a long time, precisely as long as Judaism was marginal to my life, the strict separation…

What Americans Really Think About Abortion

James Davison Hunter

At the foundation of any democratic society is the principle that the laws that order our lives…

Hindu Nationalism, Indian Democracy

Myron Weiner

India’s post-independence generation of leaders sought to keep religion at arm’s length from politics, regarding religion as…

Abortion and Political Compromise

Christopher Wolfe

Roe v. Wade is clearly in for substantial pruning—possibly even an outright overruling—in the near future. Thus…