Public Life
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Myth of Public Reason
In recent decades a consensus has emerged that religious ideas and theological notions are sectarian and private…
Race Matters
Americans like to think of their history as a success story. And so, by most measures, and…
Schools of Thought
It’s not easy to answer, the simple question of where to study theology. Interests, backgrounds, convictions, and…
On War and Apocalypse
My work has often been presented as a discussion of archaic religion through comparative anthropology. Its goal…
The Stalinist Moment In Iran
Events in Iran have been riveting. The presidential vote on June 12 was rigged to ensure the…
How to Understand Politics
For some time we have taken political science for granted, as if it did not require some…
The Tyranny of the Minority
“There is strength in numbers, but there is not truth.” Leon Wieseltier is right about that. Writing…
While We’re At It
• There are these advertisements in the Times Literary Supplement for T-shirts inscribed with the words of…
While We’re At It
• Some Methodists have a website (www.theymustrepent.com) and are collecting signatures to have two fellow Methodists, George…
Anglicanism Runs Aground
The good ship Anglican, as Archbishop Robin Eames acknowledges in his preface to the Windsor Report, appears…
While We’re At It
• ‘Tis the season to once again complain about the season. There is something to be said…
The New York Intellectuals, Again
A lot of people don’t read Comment, a magazine published by the Work Research Foundation in Mississauga,…
While We’re At It
• In Hilaire Belloc’s Cautionary Tales, there is a poem about the unfortunate “Jim” who gets eaten…
How Are We Doing?
“How is First Things doing?” The question is regularly asked wherever I go, and I am glad…
To Be American
It hardly seems like all of eight years ago that Samuel P. Huntington gave us The Clash…
