American Politics

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Being Modern

Gilbert Meilaender

Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity by charles taylor harvard university press, 601…

The Many Causes of Environmentalism

Richard John Neuhaus

The Woodstock Center at Georgetown University is where some distinguished Jesuits, and some less distinguished Jesuits, fiddle…

Editorial: Democracy and Obscenity

The Editors

The nation braces itself for yet another round of moral indignation against moral indignation. The first indignation…

Editorial: Equality After Socialism

The Editors

Socialism is dead, and, except within certain academic and religious circles, there will be few mourners. A…

Hank Gathers and Cultural Christianity

Gilbert Meilaender

When the Loyola Marymount basketball team, riding the crest of an emotional high after the death of…

Academic Integrity Betrayed

Gerard V. Bradley

Abortion does funny things to the mind. Not necessarily the procedure itself: expert opinion on its mental…

Religious Freedom Denied

Richard F. Duncan

Imagine a country in which religious freedom is trammeled, and another country in which religious freedom is…

Wealth and Whimsy: On Economic Creativity

Richard John Neuhaus

The question is: What are the theological resources of the Christian tradition for understanding the production of…

How to Think About the Family: Ten Suggestions

David Blankenhorn

Over the past decade, the “family” has gone public. Popular opinion is clearly worried about it. Everyone…

Intra-Tribal Warfare

Mary Ann Glendon

Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes by laurence h. tribe norton, 259 pages, $19.95  Abortion: The Clash of…

A Man of Contradictions

Matthew Berke

Kazantzakis: Politics of the Spirit by peter bien princeton university press, 318 pages, $29.95  By the time…

Poverty and Morality

Lawrence M. Mead

The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare by michael b. katz…

Sakharov’s Legacy

Holt Ruffin

At his funeral a close friend remarked: “It’s been said a village cannot stand without its preacher.…

Ecotastrophe Again

Herbert London

The drumbeat for apocalypse can once again be heard in the media. Almost two decades after the…

Schools on Purpose

Charles L. Glenn

For each of the past twenty-one years the Gallup Organization has conducted a nationwide poll on attitudes…