American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Feminism: Beyond the Second Stage
Barbara Bush finally got to speak at the Wellesley commencement last June, despite protests from 150 seniors…
After the Wedding: Diving Off Isla Mujeres
It’s been three days now. We continue to find splinters of rice clinging to our scalps; piercing no skin…
What Families Are For
In his engagingly titled book, What’s Wrong With the World, G. K. Chesterton argued that his fellow…
Abortion and the Neutral State
The search for the American political mainstream is a risky enterprise. It can be a salutary and…
The Real John Courtney Murray
The Search for an American Public Theology: The Contribution of John Courtney Murray by robert w. mcelroy…
The Many Causes of Environmentalism
The Woodstock Center at Georgetown University is where some distinguished Jesuits, and some less distinguished Jesuits, fiddle…
Editorial: Democracy and Obscenity
The nation braces itself for yet another round of moral indignation against moral indignation. The first indignation…
Editorial: Equality After Socialism
Socialism is dead, and, except within certain academic and religious circles, there will be few mourners. A…
Hank Gathers and Cultural Christianity
When the Loyola Marymount basketball team, riding the crest of an emotional high after the death of…
Academic Integrity Betrayed
Abortion does funny things to the mind. Not necessarily the procedure itself: expert opinion on its mental…
Religious Freedom Denied
Imagine a country in which religious freedom is trammeled, and another country in which religious freedom is…
Wealth and Whimsy: On Economic Creativity
The question is: What are the theological resources of the Christian tradition for understanding the production of…
How to Think About the Family: Ten Suggestions
Over the past decade, the “family” has gone public. Popular opinion is clearly worried about it. Everyone…
Intra-Tribal Warfare
Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes by laurence h. tribe norton, 259 pages, $19.95 Abortion: The Clash of…
A Man of Contradictions
Kazantzakis: Politics of the Spirit by peter bien princeton university press, 318 pages, $29.95 By the time…
