American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Undertakings and Promises

Philip Turner

For Christians, as for everyone else, the topic of sexual ethics is today one of widespread confusion,…

Victory Near the Plaza

Lawrence Dugan

“Sherman Led by Victory” Is a St. Gaudens statue, A cast-bronze allegory. With Victory as a woman Pulling his horse’s bridle Out…

History in the Past Perfect

Elizabeth Kristol

Is not the past large enough to let you find some place where you may disport yourself…

When Lilacs Shake

Robert Schultz

Now, in April, when lilacs shake in gusts of rain, the crown-like buds Waving thick and green on sceptre…

The Rich, the Poor, and Reaganomics

Michael Novak

When we come to measure the success of a presidency, it matters a great deal whether the…

A Modern Jeremiad

Jean Bethke Elshtain

The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics by christopher lasch w. w. norton, 576 pages,…

Do You Believe What You Sing?

Paul V. Mankowski

Why Catholics Can’t Sing: The Culture of Catholicism and the Triumph of Bad Taste by thomas day…

Beyond Liberty

Dean C. Curry

This Hemisphere of Liberty: A Philosophy of the Americas by michael novak aei press, 153 pages, $18.95…

The Inscrutable Sinologists

James Finn

China Misperceived: American Illusions and Chinese Reality by steven w. mosher basic books, 260 pages, $19.95 Driven…

More on the Gulf

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square In our March issue, George Weigel offered a comprehensive, incisive, and, it must be…

How Democracy Came About and How It Might Be Sustained

The Editors

From time to time, a most unlikely book strikes the public imagination and becomes something of a…

storms

Donna Frazier

the wind’s blown stars to powder in the sky’s blueso the morning’s pale and clear, soft as…

The Philosophical Crusher

Ben F. Meyer

We milk the cow of the world, and as we do We whisper in her ear, “You are…

The Vatican and the State of Israel

Eugene J. Fisher

In a recently published book, Sergio I. Minerbi, formerly of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, speaks…

When Nice People Do Bad Theology

Kenneth E. Hunter

Sure, Walker Percy already said it, but that was as a good-natured joshing, a passing joke. Now…