American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Minimalist Aristotle?
Innocence and Experience by stuart hampshire harvard university press, 195 pages, $20 Stuart Hampshire begins his new…
Insomnia
1. I start to dream I am waking and wake with a start from the dream. Shadows gather…
Nine Numbers
On card after card he sees it. Along with a harsh identity photograph And his preposterous signature, A black line…
The Organbuilders
The name of the one organbuilder was Craft, the other Dream, both descendants of an ur-figure. Creation. To graft metal…
The Demon in the Jewish Soul
Demons surface. For most people, demons surface in nightmares, but for us, for Jews, demons seem to…
The Educational Vise
The widely noted appearance of John Chubb and Terry Moe’s Politics, Markets & America’s Schools reminds us…
Where Babies Come From
Recent reports from a French laboratory contain some good news and some bad news for the prochoice…
Feminism: Beyond the Second Stage
Barbara Bush finally got to speak at the Wellesley commencement last June, despite protests from 150 seniors…
After the Wedding: Diving Off Isla Mujeres
It’s been three days now. We continue to find splinters of rice clinging to our scalps; piercing no skin…
What Families Are For
In his engagingly titled book, What’s Wrong With the World, G. K. Chesterton argued that his fellow…
Abortion and the Neutral State
The search for the American political mainstream is a risky enterprise. It can be a salutary and…
Being Modern
Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity by charles taylor harvard university press, 601…
The Many Causes of Environmentalism
The Woodstock Center at Georgetown University is where some distinguished Jesuits, and some less distinguished Jesuits, fiddle…
Editorial: Democracy and Obscenity
The nation braces itself for yet another round of moral indignation against moral indignation. The first indignation…
Editorial: Equality After Socialism
Socialism is dead, and, except within certain academic and religious circles, there will be few mourners. A…
