American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Theses of Martin Luther King, Jr.
News stories of recent months underscore the fact that the place of Martin Luther King, Jr. in…
Back to Fundamentals
The Fundamentalist Phenomenon: A View from Within; A Response from Without edited by norman j. cohen eerdmans,…
A Government for Real People
As a geographer, I learned years ago that my fellow countrymen are not only uninformed about the…
Complex Phenomena
The rules of chaos are simple: A mountain / is never a perfect cone. A lake /…
The Do-It-Yourself Catholic KiddieKism*
Q. Who made you? A. (Melissa Murphy, Age 10): Who makes me you should say! I co-creates me…
All You Needed to Know You Didn’t Learn in Sunday School
The Search Institute is located in Minneapolis, and it succeeded in inducing the Lilly Endowment and six…
Abortion Politics
A funny thing happened on the way to last November’s elections. Pundits who throughout the summer had…
The Things that Remain: An Episcopalian’s Credo
Fifteen years ordained and still serving in the parish. Still switching on the coffee at dawn Sunday…
God’s Spy: Malcolm Muggeridge, 1903–1990
In the course of a very long life, Malcolm Muggeridge made many enemies, but he surely made…
Mortality: The Measure of Our Days
Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither; Ripeness is all. —King Lear For…
A Jewish Theological Understanding of Christianity in Our Time
It was in the early 1960s that my late revered teacher, Professor Abraham Joshua Heschel, became the…
Root Cellar
Moving in the cool cellar gloom / Among the dusty bulbs and withered tubers / Of last…
The Soul of the American University
Our subject is one of those peculiar phenomena taken for granted in the contemporary world but which…
Out of the Fire and Into the Frying Pan
Politics, Markets, & America’s Schools by john e. chubb and terry m. moe brookings institution, 336 pages,…
Office Plaza, Sunday Morning
The blue garage can be itself again. / The cars have gone / down roads no live…
