American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Bad Old Days
Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts about the Sixties by peter collier and david horowitz summit books, 352 pages,…
Asking the Wrong Question
Prophetic Visions and Economic Realities: Protestants, Jews, & Catholics Confront the Bishops’ Letter on the Economy edited…
Should Politics Be Sacralized?
Twin Powers: Politics and the Sacred by thomas molnar eerdmans, 147 pages, $9.95 One of the most…
Fixing America
Straight Shooting: What’s Wrong with America and How to Fix It by john silber harper and row,…
The Feminist Faith
Elizabeth Achtemeier, professor of Bible at Union Theological Seminary, Virginia, has flatly asserted that radical feminist theology…
Eastern Europe: History Resumed
Eastern Europe in 1990 is not to be confused with Africa in 1960. African decolonization was a…
Timethink on the Rocks
Poor Time. Twenty-four years ago this month, the magazine brought us its Nietzschean fears with its famous…
Parable from the Prairie
In 1984 a federal court held the public schools of the Kansas City, Missouri, School District to…
Fuzzing Family Values: The Mass Mutual Survey
By now it should be axiomatic that surveys and polls tell us as much about the people…
The Bishops and the Middle East
The U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Statement on the Middle East, adopted unanimously during the bishops’ fall 1989 bicentennial…
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Transcendental Subject
At the time of the publication of Michael Sandel’s Liberalism and the Limits of Justice in 1982,…
Wisteria
Here it comes again, after shimmering dead all winter, stretching, flexing, limbering, unleashing hordes of feather-cut leaves that look like dragon…
The Return of the Catholic Whig
In his famous Postscript to The Constitution of Liberty, Friedrich von Hayek identified Thomas Aquinas as “the…
Christians and Economic Development
The 1980s may well be looked back upon as a decade of intellectual reformation in the so-called…
Editorial: Redefining Abortion Politics
Beginning with the Supreme Court’s Webster decision of last July, Americans were delighted, distressed, or simply puzzled…
