American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Victory Near the Plaza
“Sherman Led by Victory” Is a St. Gaudens statue, A cast-bronze allegory. With Victory as a woman Pulling his horse’s bridle Out…
History in the Past Perfect
Is not the past large enough to let you find some place where you may disport yourself…
When Lilacs Shake
Now, in April, when lilacs shake / in gusts of rain, the crown-like buds...
The Rich, the Poor, and Reaganomics
When we come to measure the success of a presidency, it matters a great deal whether the…
A Modern Jeremiad
The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics by christopher lasch w. w. norton, 576 pages,…
Do You Believe What You Sing?
Why Catholics Can’t Sing: The Culture of Catholicism and the Triumph of Bad Taste by thomas day…
Beyond Liberty
This Hemisphere of Liberty: A Philosophy of the Americas by michael novak aei press, 153 pages, $18.95…
The Inscrutable Sinologists
China Misperceived: American Illusions and Chinese Reality by steven w. mosher basic books, 260 pages, $19.95 Driven…
More on the Gulf
The Public Square In our March issue, George Weigel offered a comprehensive, incisive, and, it must be…
How Democracy Came About and How It Might Be Sustained
From time to time, a most unlikely book strikes the public imagination and becomes something of a…
storms
the wind’s blown stars to powder in the sky’s blue / so the morning’s pale and clear,…
The Philosophical Crusher
We milk the cow of the world, and as we do We whisper in her ear, “You are…
Walker Percy: An Exchange
Joseph Schwartz: Walker Percy’s Wise Answers It is unfortunate that Paul Greenberg’s appreciation of Walker Percy in…
Of Rome and Runnymede
Curious. Why should the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe all see fit to carry the story of the…
“I Am the Very Model of a Modern Vicar-P’rochial”
V-P:I am the very model of a modern Vicar-P’rochial. I’ve schooling theological, from Curran to Ezekial. I…
