American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
God’s Spy: Malcolm Muggeridge, 1903–1990
In the course of a very long life, Malcolm Muggeridge made many enemies, but he surely made…
Mortality: The Measure of Our Days
Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither; Ripeness is all. —King Lear For…
Judaism, Zionism, Messianism: Telling Them Apart
The relation between Judaism, Zionism, and Messianism is one that is often hard for Jews to get…
Mueca a la Muerte: Defiance in a Grimace
That the world should end in an orgy of pain was inconceivable at my conception in the Panama…
Honor in the University
We live in a time when ethics has become big business: medical schools hire medical ethicists, business…
Out of the Fire and Into the Frying Pan
Politics, Markets, & America’s Schools by john e. chubb and terry m. moe brookings institution, 336 pages,…
Office Plaza, Sunday Morning
The blue garage can be itself again.The cars have gonedown roads no live things dareto run. Machines…
Toward a Christian Critique of the Arts
Sham Pearls for Real Swine by franky schaeffer wolgemuth & hyatt, 290 pages, $14.95 In 1948, a…
The Counterculture’s New Mind
The Genocidal Mentality: Nazi Holocaust and Nuclear Threat by robert jay lifton and eric markusen basic books,…
The Rational Animal
The Culture We Deserve by jacques barzun university press of new england, 185 pages, $19.95 “I have…
Notes on the Culture Wars
Almost nobody wants to be called a prude and reactionary, a bluenose puritan and spoilsport. It would…
The Death of Religious Higher Education
From time to time, a set of concerns reaches something like a critical mass. Familiar discontents vaguely…
David Byrne and the Curse of Lifestyle
Lately I’ve been noting an interesting linguistic phenomenon: the all-purpose word. You come across it most often…
The New Lapsed
In the aftermath of the victory over Communist domination of Eastern Europe, previously hidden divisions are surfacing…
Islam and Modernity
As Communism loses its menacing posture and its threat recedes globally. Western concentration is beginning to focus…
