American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Editorial: Equality After Socialism
Socialism is dead, and, except within certain academic and religious circles, there will be few mourners. A…
Hank Gathers and Cultural Christianity
When the Loyola Marymount basketball team, riding the crest of an emotional high after the death of…
Academic Integrity Betrayed
Abortion does funny things to the mind. Not necessarily the procedure itself: expert opinion on its mental…
Religious Freedom Denied
Imagine a country in which religious freedom is trammeled, and another country in which religious freedom is…
Wealth and Whimsy: On Economic Creativity
The question is: What are the theological resources of the Christian tradition for understanding the production of…
How to Think About the Family: Ten Suggestions
Over the past decade, the “family” has gone public. Popular opinion is clearly worried about it. Everyone…
Intra-Tribal Warfare
Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes by laurence h. tribe norton, 259 pages, $19.95 Abortion: The Clash of…
Sakharov’s Legacy
At his funeral a close friend remarked: “It’s been said a village cannot stand without its preacher.…
Ecotastrophe Again
The drumbeat for apocalypse can once again be heard in the media. Almost two decades after the…
Schools on Purpose
For each of the past twenty-one years the Gallup Organization has conducted a nationwide poll on attitudes…
Leaf with Berry
At the last rock of the last ledge of the last climb, / retreat blocked, he went…
The Shadows
Easy to forget, how shadows / are light’s creatures, out of dark, / out of thinning dark…
Michael Harrington’s Socialism
Socialism: Past and Future by michael harrington arcade publishing, 320 pages, $19.95 If one is going to…
Never the Twain
Japan: In the Land of the Brokenhearted by michael shapiro henry holt & company, 254 pages, $19.95 In…
The Fate of Republicanism
Revolt against Destiny: An Intellectual History of the United States by paul a. carter columbia university press,…
