American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Consequences of Columbus
Just when we were convinced that Newsweek, like its counterpart Time, is an essentially superficial magazine for…
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…
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…
Abortion on Second Thought
I was a teenager and young adult in the late 1960s and early 1970s, before Roe v.…
The Mindless Self: Freud Triumphant
In the heat of the anguished nineteenth-century debate over evolutionary theory, Samuel Butler declared that Darwin had…
In A Field Of Weeds
Five degrees. Rough, shifting winds. Sunlight crashing / Almost audibly, sky to snow-pack, snow-pack to sky. ...
Education and the Mind Redeemed
I The early Church father Tertullian asked a famous question, one that has been asked again and…
Science Within the Limits of Truth
The October 1990 issue of this publication featured a lively and occasionally fierce debate on the subject…
The Grammar of Baptism
Feminism has become a truly significant force within American culture. Its presence and power is felt in…
