American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Poverty and Morality
The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare by michael b. katz…
Being Modern
Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity by charles taylor harvard university press, 601…
Sakharov’s Legacy
At his funeral a close friend remarked: “It’s been said a village cannot stand without its preacher.…
Ecotastrophe Again
The drumbeat for apocalypse can once again be heard in the media. Almost two decades after the…
Schools on Purpose
For each of the past twenty-one years the Gallup Organization has conducted a nationwide poll on attitudes…
Leaf with Berry
At the last rock of the last ledge of the last climb, retreat blocked, he went to…
The Shadows
Easy to forget, how shadows are light’s creatures, out of dark, out of thinning dark come delicately,…
Michael Harrington’s Socialism
Socialism: Past and Future by michael harrington arcade publishing, 320 pages, $19.95 If one is going to…
Never the Twain
Japan: In the Land of the Brokenhearted by michael shapiro henry holt & company, 254 pages, $19.95 In…
The Fate of Republicanism
Revolt against Destiny: An Intellectual History of the United States by paul a. carter columbia university press,…
The Transcendent in the Mundane
Ordinary Time by a. g. mojtabai doubleday, 223 pages, $17.95 A.G. Mojtabai’s nonfiction work, Blessed Assurance, won…
The Perfectly Raised Consciousness
Reflecting on the rash of outraged protests against allegedly sexist, racist, and homophobic slurs erupting in our…
A Reader’s Guide to English Furniture: The Eighteenth Century
Forget the romance purveyed of windowseats, knocked as they be by the winds that skim drowned lawns…
Finding the Diary
Settling the estate, the lawyer said. It seemed too grand a way of putting it— bills to…
Why Wait for the Kingdom?The Theonomist Temptation
Paul Tillich famously wrote about ethics in the heteronomous, autonomous, and theonomous modes. To summarize all too…
