American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Complexities of Morality
Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism by owen flanagan harvard university press, 336 pages, $34.95…
Reviving the Missionary Mandate
The editorial in our May 1991 issue was titled “Christian Mission and the Third Millennium.” It described…
Editorial: What Can Be Asked of a Judge
A number of important questions touching on religion and public life were raised early on in connection…
God and Man at Tuscaloosa
A friend of mine, more radical and pessimistic than I, claims that it is illegal to be…
My Mother, the Expert
When I was a sophomore in high school in Colorado in the late 1950s, I was required,…
Allee-Allee-Enfree
Nutshells on patched linoleum,cracks skipped overon the long sidewalk home,hide-and-go-seek gamewe stopped counting. Still sometimes we huntfor…
The God of Abraham and the Enemies of “Eurocentrism”
Half a century ago, on March 9, 1940, with the world collapsing into a war that was…
The Constitution and the Erotic Self
The history books tell us that Gavrilo Princip, the Serbian nationalist who shot and killed Austrian Archduke…
Man, Woman, and Public Policy
Our topic is sexual identity and the meaning of gender in elite public discourse. Few topics are…
Not a Poem
Old people can’t write poetry. Only those who think and live and feel and praise and swear and fight…
The Economics of Human Freedom
Editors’ Note: The following is a condensation of Centesimus Annus (“The Hundredth Year”), Pope John Paul II’s…
The Paleo’s Paleo
The Conservative Constitution by Russell Kirk Regnery Gateway, 241 pages, $22.95 In the various worlds of American…
The Church Militant
Baptist Battles: Social Change and Religious Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention by Nancy Tatom Ammerman Rutgers…
Home Alone: The Plight of Children
When the Bough Breaks: The Cost of Neglecting Our Children by Sylvia Annn Hewlett Basic Books, 341…
Beyond Modernity
After Ideology: Recovering the Spiritual Foundation of Freedom by David Walsh HarperSanFrancisco, 296 pages, $29.95 In this…
