American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

“I Am the Very Model of a Modern Vicar-P’rochial”

Mike Aquilina

V-P:I am the very model of a modern Vicar-P’rochial. I’ve schooling theological, from Curran to Ezekial. I…

Paraphrase of Some Famous Lines in Spanish Literature

Anthony Kerrigan

I will become dust and you will become dust and ashes our tongues and ashes our eyes but, ever…

Theology Through the Looking Glass

Richard E. Wentz

In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, Alice has been having quite a run through the Garden…

Leaping Headfirst Into the Smith Trap

Phillip H. Harris

Richard John Neuhaus has joined the chorus of those singing a lament to the death of religious…

“J” in Bloom

Joseph Blenkinsopp

The Book of J translated from the hebrew by david rosenberg interpreted by harold bloom grove weidenfeld,…

Race and Urban Politics

Lawrence M. Mead

The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York by jim sleeper w.…

Populist Protestantism

Michael Cromartie

The Democratization of American Christianity by nathan hatch yale university press, 312 pages, $25 In 1802 a…

The Theses of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Editors

News stories of recent months underscore the fact that the place of Martin Luther King, Jr. in…

Back to Fundamentals

Joseph A. Varacalli

The Fundamentalist Phenomenon: A View from Within; A Response from Without edited by norman j. cohen eerdmans,…

A Government for Real People

John Strietelmeier

As a geographer, I learned years ago that my fellow countrymen are not only uninformed about the…

Complex Phenomena

Jill P. Baumgaertner

The rules of chaos are simple: A mountain is never a perfect cone. A lake is never really a…

The Do-It-Yourself Catholic KiddieKism*

Paul V. Mankowski

Q. Who made you?  A. (Melissa Murphy, Age 10): Who makes me you should say! I co-creates me…

All You Needed to Know You Didn’t Learn in Sunday School

Richard John Neuhaus

The Search Institute is located in Minneapolis, and it succeeded in inducing the Lilly Endowment and six…

Abortion Politics

R. R. Reno

A funny thing happened on the way to last November’s elections. Pundits who throughout the summer had…

The Things that Remain: An Episcopalian’s Credo

Paul Zahl

Fifteen years ordained and still serving in the parish. Still switching on the coffee at dawn Sunday…