American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Parable from the Prairie
In 1984 a federal court held the public schools of the Kansas City, Missouri, School District to…
Fuzzing Family Values: The Mass Mutual Survey
By now it should be axiomatic that surveys and polls tell us as much about the people…
The Bishops and the Middle East
The U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Statement on the Middle East, adopted unanimously during the bishops’ fall 1989 bicentennial…
Old Havana
. . . pongee-colored girls in white dresses the sun shone through in multiple haloes where they lay alongside…
The Return of the Catholic Whig
In his famous Postscript to The Constitution of Liberty, Friedrich von Hayek identified Thomas Aquinas as “the…
Christians and Economic Development
The 1980s may well be looked back upon as a decade of intellectual reformation in the so-called…
Editorial: Redefining Abortion Politics
Beginning with the Supreme Court’s Webster decision of last July, Americans were delighted, distressed, or simply puzzled…
Liberalism and Catholicism
Free Persons and the Common Good by michael novak madison books, 244 pages, $17.95 A number of…
The Closed Mind of Arthur Schlesinger
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.’s widely noticed essay in the New York Times Book Review last summer, “The Opening…
Modernism & Its Consequences
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by modris ecksteins houghton…
A Culture of Poverty?
I hadn’t thought of Jerry Carter for at least five years. I probably wouldn’t have thought of…
Catholicism in America
Catholicism and the Renewal of American Democracy by george weigel paulist press, 218 pages, $11.95 Forty years…
Reflections on the Flag-Burning Case
One of my jobs as a summer reporter for the The Berkshire Eagle during my college and…
Poverty and Public Policy
In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government by charles murray simon and schuster, 341 pages, $19.95 In…
The Capitalism & Morality Debate
The decade of the 1980s has proved to be an ideological watershed. It has been marked by…
