American Politics
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Free University Orthodoxy
During the debate over “biblical inerrancy” that raged among evangelicalism for several years in the late 1970s,…
Winter Songs
Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession by ian bostridge knopf, 528 pages, $29 One hundred and…
Mary, Mother of All
My children shower me with affection, so I have no real reason to go fishing for more…
Religious Rights
Christian Human Rights by samuel moyn university of pennsylvania, 264 pages, $24.95 Samuel Moyn, a professor of…
Liberalism’s Future
When it comes to equality, the rising generation of liberal leaders may talk the talk, but they’re…
Bad Advice
“Do not go gentle into that good night” —Dylan Thomas Not gentle, I went mad, as that…
On a Young Writer
By practice skill is got, by practice wit is won.—George Turberville On being asked by a young…
Letters
Teachers In his “Re-Educate for America” (November), Malcolm Rivers identifies correctly the cultural hegemony that undergirds the…
Endangered Faiths
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East by gerard russell basic…
Liberal Racism Bares Its Fangs
Given the politically-correct hysteria that typically surrounds any discussion of racism these days, I hesitate to use…
Machiavellianism and Idealism in Foreign Policy
Is the US obligated to do what is best for its people regardless of justice, or is…
Whatever Happened to Sacral Kingship?
The Watershed of Modern Politics: Law, Virtue, Kingship, and Consent (1300-1650)by Francis OakleyYale University Press, 440 pages,…
Rise of the “Unholy Left”
The Devil’s Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West by michael…
What Kind of Nationalism Do We Want?
The recent victory of the right-populist National Front in France and Donald Trumps’ continued lead in the…
Neoconservative Catholicism in America
A Partisan Church: American Catholicism and the Rise of Neoconservative Catholics by todd scribner cua, 155 pages,…
