American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Near Dawn
Tugged out of bed by a dream, / he enters the world, confronts / cats stalking the…
Reagan’s America, America’s Reagan
An American Life by Ronald Reagan Simon and Schuster, 748 pages, $24.95 President Reagan: The Role of…
The One and the Many
The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas by isaiah berlin alfred a. knopf,…
The Personal Niebuhr
Remembering Reinhold Niebuhr: Letters of Reinhold and Ursula Niebuhr edited by ursula m. niebuhr harpercollins, 432 pages,…
Always Among Us
The Urban Underclass edited by christopher jencks and paul e. peterson brookings institution publications, 490 pages, $34.95…
The Reluctant Skeptic
Chapter and Verse: A Skeptic Revisits Christianity by mike bryan random house, 324 pages, $22 Mike Bryan…
Letters—December 1991
The Evils of Capitalism While I agree with some of Peter Berger’s observations in “Capitalism: The Continuing…
Roger’s Versions
The Philosopher on Dover Beach: Essays by roger scruton st. martin’s press, 350 pages, $24.95 Unusually for…
Editorial: Euthanasia: Final Exit, Final Excuse
At year’s end, the eyes of the world turn again to an infant who is, so Christians…
The Feminist Revelation
That is the title of an important article in Social Philosophy & Policy (Vol. VIII, No. 1)…
A Rabbi’s Christmas
In order not to raise false hopes in the hearts of those who still have the expectation…
A Protestant Shtetl
Just east of Chattanooga, four miles north of the Georgia state line and six miles up the…
Ideology Therapy
Wise is he to whom all things taste as they are.—Joseph Pieper The first time the popular…
Man and Woman: An Old Story
This essay originated as the sixth annual Erasmus Lecture, sponsored by the Institute on Religion and Public…
Transfiguration
The alarm sinks its teeth / into my ear. I drag out / of our warm bed.…
