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A Government for Real People

John Strietelmeier

As a geographer, I learned years ago that my fellow countrymen are not only uninformed about the…

Abortion Politics

R. R. Reno

A funny thing happened on the way to last November’s elections. Pundits who throughout the summer had…

Leaping Headfirst Into the Smith Trap

Phillip H. Harris

Richard John Neuhaus has joined the chorus of those singing a lament to the death of religious…

Race and Urban Politics

Lawrence M. Mead

The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York by jim sleeper w.…

Capitalism and the Disorders of Modernity

Peter L. Berger

For most people in America, all those not familiar with the complicated ideological positioning on the right…

The Flag Amendment Is a Religious Issue

William Johnson Everett

The issue of a constitutional amendment to prohibit desecration of the American flag is currently on political…

Drugs and the Face of Evil

William J. Bennett

One of the least understood aspects of the drug problem is the degree to which it is…

Notes on the Culture Struggle: Dr. King in the Law Schools

Mary Ann Glendon

The suggestion has been made on occasion in these pages that Americans are engaged in a Kulturkampf,…

Constitutionalism and Modernity

Daniel Mahoney

Confronting the Constitution: The Challenge to Locke, Montesquieu, Jefferson, and the Federalists from Utilitarianism, Historicism, Marxism, Freudianism,…

Abortion and the Neutral State

Robert P. Hunt

The search for the American political mainstream is a risky enterprise. It can be a salutary and…

The Real John Courtney Murray

Keith L. Pavlischek

The Search for an American Public Theology: The Contribution of John Courtney Murray by robert w. mcelroy…

Polygamy, Peyote, and the Public Peace

Richard John Neuhaus

No one should be surprised that decisions of great constitutional moment are sometimes occasioned by cases that…

Editorial: Equality After Socialism

The Editors

Socialism is dead, and, except within certain academic and religious circles, there will be few mourners. A…

Academic Integrity Betrayed

Gerard V. Bradley

Abortion does funny things to the mind. Not necessarily the procedure itself: expert opinion on its mental…

Religious Freedom Denied

Richard F. Duncan

Imagine a country in which religious freedom is trammeled, and another country in which religious freedom is…