American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Liberation Theology-What’s Left

Michael Novak

Among the far-reaching effects of the great antisocialist revolutions of 1989 is one that has so far…

Immortal Florence

Corbin Scott Carnell

Dante and Michelangelo / You were here; / Brunelleschi, Donatello...

The Christian Intellectual Tradition

Robert Louis Wilken

It is easy to get religion, something else to hold on to it. It’s like dieting—many find…

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…

Godly Cooking? Theological Ethics and Technological Society

Max L. Stackhouse

Every civilization has had its own ways of getting materials out of the bio-physical environment in order…

The Decline and Fall of the Christian College (II)

James Tunstead Burtchaell

The first part of this essay, published in last month’s issue, recounted how the process of estrangement…

Pacifism, Just War & the Gulf: An Exchange

Stanley Hauerwas and Richard John Neuhaus

IJanuary 30, 1991 Dear Richard, Your column in the Wall Street Journal (January 23, 1991), “Just War…

Olive Bed

Robert Schultz

Where but in bed does the world begin. / Where man and woman know, like children. ...

1492 and All That

Robert Royal

The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacyby kirkpatrick saleknopf, 453 pages, $24.95 As every…

Alasdair MacIntyre’s University

Mark R. Schwehn

Three Rival Versions of Moral Inquiry by alasdair macintyre university of notre dame press, 241 pages, $24.95…

Evangelical Growth and Politics in Latin America

Joseph E. Davis

Is Latin America Turning Protestant? The Politics of Evangelical Growth by david stoll university of california press,…

What Crisis in the Black Church?

R. Laurence Moore

The Black Church in the African American Experience by c. eric lincoln and lawrence h. mamiya duke…

Across the Gulf of Faith

Matthew Berke

Jewish Perspectives on Christianity edited by franz a. rothschild crossroad, 363 pages, $29.50 The interfaith dialogue between…

Boys and Girls: The Long Way Back to the Obvious

Richard John Neuhaus

Surveys provide additional evidence that Americans are returning to “traditional values.” Traditional values is usually a synonym…