American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
Paraphrase of Some Famous Lines in Spanish Literature
I will become dust and you will become dust / and ashes our tongues and ashes our…
Theology Through the Looking Glass
In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, Alice has been having quite a run through the Garden…
Leaping Headfirst Into the Smith Trap
Richard John Neuhaus has joined the chorus of those singing a lament to the death of religious…
“J” in Bloom
The Book of J translated from the hebrew by david rosenberg interpreted by harold bloom grove weidenfeld,…
Race and Urban Politics
The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York by jim sleeper w.…
Populist Protestantism
The Democratization of American Christianity by nathan hatch yale university press, 312 pages, $25 In 1802 a…
