American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
“J” in Bloom
The Book of J translated from the hebrew by david rosenberg interpreted by harold bloom grove weidenfeld,…
Race and Urban Politics
The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York by jim sleeper w.…
Populist Protestantism
The Democratization of American Christianity by nathan hatch yale university press, 312 pages, $25 In 1802 a…
The Theses of Martin Luther King, Jr.
News stories of recent months underscore the fact that the place of Martin Luther King, Jr. in…
Back to Fundamentals
The Fundamentalist Phenomenon: A View from Within; A Response from Without edited by norman j. cohen eerdmans,…
A Government for Real People
As a geographer, I learned years ago that my fellow countrymen are not only uninformed about the…
Complex Phenomena
The rules of chaos are simple: A mountain is never a perfect cone. A lake is never really a…
The Do-It-Yourself Catholic KiddieKism*
Q. Who made you? A. (Melissa Murphy, Age 10): Who makes me you should say! I co-creates me…
All You Needed to Know You Didn’t Learn in Sunday School
The Search Institute is located in Minneapolis, and it succeeded in inducing the Lilly Endowment and six…
Abortion Politics
A funny thing happened on the way to last November’s elections. Pundits who throughout the summer had…
The Things that Remain: An Episcopalian’s Credo
Fifteen years ordained and still serving in the parish. Still switching on the coffee at dawn Sunday…
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…
