American Politics

Straight Shooting: What’s Wrong with America and How to Fix It by john silber harper and row,…

Elizabeth Achtemeier, professor of Bible at Union Theological Seminary, Virginia, has flatly asserted that radical feminist theology…

Eastern Europe in 1990 is not to be confused with Africa in 1960. African decolonization was a…

Poor Time. Twenty-four years ago this month, the magazine brought us its Nietzschean fears with its famous…

In 1984 a federal court held the public schools of the Kansas City, Missouri, School District to…

By now it should be axiomatic that surveys and polls tell us as much about the people…

The U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Statement on the Middle East, adopted unanimously during the bishops’ fall 1989 bicentennial…

. . . pongee-colored girls in white dresses the sun shone through in multiple haloes where they lay alongside…

In his famous Postscript to The Constitution of Liberty, Friedrich von Hayek identified Thomas Aquinas as “the…

The 1980s may well be looked back upon as a decade of intellectual reformation in the so-called…

Beginning with the Supreme Court’s Webster decision of last July, Americans were delighted, distressed, or simply puzzled…

Free Persons and the Common Good by michael novak madison books, 244 pages, $17.95 A number of…

Arthur Schlesinger Jr.’s widely noticed essay in the New York Times Book Review last summer, “The Opening…

Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by modris ecksteins houghton…

I hadn’t thought of Jerry Carter for at least five years. I probably wouldn’t have thought of…