American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
Jefferson, Adams, and the Natural Aristocracy
Starting from a common premise and a shared commitment to republicanism, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams arrived…
The Necktie Gap
The Resurgent Liberal: And Other Unfashionable Prophecies by robert reich random house, 303 pages, $19.95 There are…
Glimpsing the Transcendent
Real Presences by george steiner university of chicago press, 236 pages, $19.95 Of the major literary critics…
Religion and Science
The Galileo Affair:A Documentary History edited and translated with an introduction and notes by maurice a. finocchiaro…
Edwards and America
America’s Theologian: A Recommendation of Jonathan Edwards by robert jenson oxford university press, 224 pages, $26 At…
Hope for South Africa?
A Future South Africa: Visions, Strategies, and Realities edited by peter l. berger and bobby godsell westview…
