American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

The “Mabelized” Church

Peter J. Leithart

Exploring the influence of televangelism on American religion in his book The Struggle for America’s Soul, Princeton…

Art and the Spirit

Franky Schaeffer

The expression of art—the exploration of figurative and abstract thought in tangible external forms—is unique to human…

The Case for Educational Retrenchment

Herbert London

It is virtually axiomatic in higher education circles that the more money spent on the educational enterprise…

Religion in the Unheavenly City

Roger Starr

Half a mile, not more, separates 50th Street and Park Avenue in central Manhattan from the northwest…

Zebra

Natasha Trethewey

Up and down the oneway streets of houses huddled deep and close together, sycamores, live oaks brace up to the…

Israel Among the Nationalisms

Robert A. Licht

With the apparent demise of Communism, if not of socialism, the other political pathology of modernity, nationalism,…

Careless Flying

Luci Shaw

I I have been considering the ravens, who live without worrying and have no bins or barns…

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…