American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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,…
The Transcendent in the Mundane
Ordinary Time by a. g. mojtabai doubleday, 223 pages, $17.95 A.G. Mojtabai’s nonfiction work, Blessed Assurance, won…
The Perfectly Raised Consciousness
Reflecting on the rash of outraged protests against allegedly sexist, racist, and homophobic slurs erupting in our…
Separationism for Religion’s Sake
At a conference last fall on “Christians, Jews, and the Free Exercise of Religion” sponsored by the…
Forward to the Seventies
As I write these words, it is exactly one week before my seventieth birthday”“the days of our…
In Favor of Muddling Through
In American political rhetoric–stump speeches, newspaper editorials, party propaganda–the terms “left wing” and “right wing” are used…
A Reader’s Guide to English Furniture: The Eighteenth Century
Forget the romance purveyed of windowseats, / knocked as they be by the winds / that skim…
Finding the Diary
Settling the estate, the lawyer said. / It seemed too grand a way of putting it— /…
Why Wait for the Kingdom?The Theonomist Temptation
Paul Tillich famously wrote about ethics in the heteronomous, autonomous, and theonomous modes. To summarize all too…
Taking Religious Freedom Seriously
Passage of the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment (“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment…
