American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

The Flag Amendment Is a Religious Issue

William Johnson Everett

The issue of a constitutional amendment to prohibit desecration of the American flag is currently on political…

Super Flumina Babylonis, or, Outside the Mainstream

Paul V. Mankowski

Readers of the New York Times, which Alasdair MacIntyre has called “that parish magazine of affluent and self-congratulatory…

“Linguistic Injustice”: An Exchange

James F. White and James T. Burtchaell

The University of Notre Dame To: My Colleagues in the Department of TheologyFrom: James F. White On…

At the Taj Mahal In Atlantic City

William Heyen

As I was splitting a pair of queens to double my sawbuck bet, someone said “He’s here,”…

Nature’s Call

Jean Bethke Elshtain

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

Mary Ann Glendon

The suggestion has been made on occasion in these pages that Americans are engaged in a Kulturkampf,…

The Uses of Homophobia

The Editors

The best way to win an argument is to control the terms of discussion. Any high school…

An Open Letter on Abortion

Marc F. Griesbach

I intend these remarks primarily for a specific group of people: those persons of good will who…

The Radical Paradigm and the New Racism

David Horowitz

In confronting the race question in America today, we are faced with a paradox. On the one…

1789: A Requiem

John P. Sisk

Perhaps no English poem was more frequently cited during France’s 1989 Bicentennial year than William Wordsworth’s Prelude,…

Telling the American Catholic Story

George Weigel

Catholics in America have rarely taken the study of their history seriously. My own educational circumstances, which…

The Real John Courtney Murray

Keith L. Pavlischek

The Search for an American Public Theology: The Contribution of John Courtney Murray by robert w. mcelroy…

Religion and the New South Africa

Dean C. Curry

Since Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, the prospects for peaceful change in South Africa have seemingly improved.…

The Social History of American Religion

Martin E. Marty

Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People by jon butler harvard university press, 360…

Faith and Politics

Kenneth R. Craycraft, Jr.

The Political Meaning of Christianity: An Interpretation by glenn tinder louisiana state university press, 257pages, $29.95  I…