American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Judaism and American Public Life: A Symposium
In the half-century now past, the dominant view among American Jews was that religion should be rigorously…
She Turned to Me
She turned to me one night as if to say: / “I know.” And though I waited…
The Churches & War in the Gulf
About the public debate preceding Operation Desert Storm, two things may be said with some confidence. First,…
Bilbao Alone
Some of the sounds here are familiar: / Vivaldi plays the same in this language, / keys…
An Open Letter to the Religious Community
T he signers of this letter have been active for many years in both scholarship and litigation…
History According to the Village Atheist
The Arrogance of Faith: Christianity and Race in America from the Colonial Era to the Twentieth Century…
Saints as Givers, Saints as Guides
Making Saints: How the Church Determines Who Becomes a Saint, Who Doesn’t and Why by kenneth l.…
Left Out
Encyclopedia of the American Left edited by mary jo buhle, paul buhle, and dan georgakas garland, 928…
The Death Watch
The Public Square We need not speculate about what may be down “the slippery slope” on which we find…
An Old Radio in Atlantic City
It drew people to it like a fire, / The needle floating up and down its dial,…
When Church-State Conflicts Aren’t
Here is a review in a national publication of a book about religion in American public life.…
Conflict of Canons
In his 1989 novel The Storyteller, Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian novelist and erstwhile presidential candidate, describes the Machiguenga, a…
Judaism, Zionism, Messianism: Telling Them Apart
The relation between Judaism, Zionism, and Messianism is one that is often hard for Jews to get…
Mueca a la Muerte: Defiance in a Grimace
That the world should end in an orgy of pain / was inconceivable at my conception in…
Honor in the University
We live in a time when ethics has become big business: medical schools hire medical ethicists, business…
