American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
America Through Foreign Eyes
Americans: The View From Abroad by james c. simmons crown, 239 pages, $19.95 A zealous convert once…
Abortion Talk
Decoding Abortion Rhetoric: Communicating Social Change by celeste michelle condit university of illinois press, 236 pages, $24.95…
Civility and Permissions
Who has been handing out these permission slips?” asks a writer of our acquaintance. He wants to…
Drugs and the Face of Evil
One of the least understood aspects of the drug problem is the degree to which it is…
The Flag Amendment Is a Religious Issue
The issue of a constitutional amendment to prohibit desecration of the American flag is currently on political…
Super Flumina Babylonis, or, Outside the Mainstream
Readers of the New York Times, which Alasdair MacIntyre has called “that parish magazine of affluent and self-congratulatory…
“Linguistic Injustice”: An Exchange
The University of Notre Dame To: My Colleagues in the Department of TheologyFrom: James F. White On…
At the Taj Mahal In Atlantic City
As I was splitting a pair of queens to double my sawbuck bet, someone said “He’s here,”…
Nature’s Call
In Tennessee Williams’ The Night of the Iguana the dissolute but not, he emphatically insists, officially “defrocked”…
Notes on the Culture Struggle: Dr. King in the Law Schools
The suggestion has been made on occasion in these pages that Americans are engaged in a Kulturkampf,…
The Uses of Homophobia
The best way to win an argument is to control the terms of discussion. Any high school…
An Open Letter on Abortion
I intend these remarks primarily for a specific group of people: those persons of good will who…
The Radical Paradigm and the New Racism
In confronting the race question in America today, we are faced with a paradox. On the one…
1789: A Requiem
Perhaps no English poem was more frequently cited during France’s 1989 Bicentennial year than William Wordsworth’s Prelude,…
Telling the American Catholic Story
Catholics in America have rarely taken the study of their history seriously. My own educational circumstances, which…
