American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

The Bad Old Days

Paul Hollander

Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts about the Sixties by peter collier and david horowitz summit books, 352 pages,…

Asking the Wrong Question

Kenneth R. Craycraft, Jr.

Prophetic Visions and Economic Realities: Protestants, Jews, & Catholics Confront the Bishops’ Letter on the Economy edited…

Should Politics Be Sacralized?

John W. Cooper

Twin Powers: Politics and the Sacred by thomas molnar eerdmans, 147 pages, $9.95 One of the most…

Fixing America

Quentin L. Quade

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

The Feminist Faith

Richard John Neuhaus

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

Eastern Europe: History Resumed

Thomas Molnar

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

Timethink on the Rocks

Steven Hayward

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

Parable from the Prairie

John E. Coons

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

God’s Affable Principle of Cohesion

Anthony Kerrigan

Merely the look of it, buttercup / at the edge of the “Lawn Falls” / where the…

Old Havana

Anthony Kerrigan

. . . pongee-colored girls in white dresses the sun / shone through in multiple haloes...

The Return of the Catholic Whig

Michael Novak

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

Christians and Economic Development

Amy L. Sherman

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

Editorial: Redefining Abortion Politics

The Editors

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

Liberalism and Catholicism

Robert Benne

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

The Closed Mind of Arthur Schlesinger

David Novak

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