American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Declinism—and Fall?
Why America Doesn’t Work by Chuck Colson and Jack Eckerd Word Publishing, 227 pages, $16.99 In Why…
The Big Economic Lie
There they go again. The presidential election of 1992 is bringing out among politicians and the media…
The RU-486 Icon
In A. S. Byatt’s recent novel, Possession, the main character notes that the one unchallenged dogma of his generation…
What I Saw at the American Academy of Religion
The American Academy of Religion, in its statement of purpose, calls itself “an inclusive learned society and…
Blue Ridge Modernity Blues
It’s a mild winter evening in the Blue Ridge mountains. The faint sounds of banjo and fiddle…
The Catholic Public Servant
The Supreme Court is not exempt from the law of unintended consequences. The Court may have anticipated…
The Earnest Methodist
Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam: Paladin of Liberal Protestantism by robert moats miller abingdon press, 624 pages, $29.95…
The Hidden America
More Americans attend church or synagogue each week of the year than attend professional sports events in…
Rights and Wrongs About Rights
Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse by Mary Ann Glendon Free Press, 288 pages, $22.95 One…
Consequences of Columbus
Just when we were convinced that Newsweek, like its counterpart Time, is an essentially superficial magazine for…
A Communitarian Lament
The Good Society by robert n. bellah, richard madsen, william m. sullivan, ann swidler, and stephen m.…
Despising Our Mothers, Despising Ourselves
Today’s women are the victims of the second biggest con game in history . . . .…
Protestants and Natural Law
It is hard to make generalizations about Protestant theology, given the inherently splintered nature of Protestantism and…
Trading Needles
It was the standard civil disobedience defense: they did it not for themselves, but in response to…
In A Field Of Weeds
“Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.” —Pascal, Pensées…
