American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
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…