American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Walzer’s Paradox
The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions by michael walzer yale, 192 pages, $26 Michael…
Christian Duty in Ukraine
Although many Christians have suffered and even died in Ukraine, churches across the globe keep silent about…
Facing the Unborn
An ultrasound video of an unborn child sucking its thumb makes a case against abortion that reason…
Briefly Noted
Boswell’s Enlightenment by robert zaretsky harvard, 288 pages, $26.95 When James Boswell met Voltaire, he was not…
Kids Today
Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids edited by meghan daum…
The Nation, the Church, and the Immigrants
Say what you will about Donald Trump. He has pushed immigration to the forefront of the 2016…
Segregated Sunday Mornings
This past spring, the renowned sociologist Robert Putnam made waves with a claim that American churches had dedicated…
Tourists at a Tragedy
Vacation this year took us to Fredericksburg, Virginia, to see a ridge known as Marye’s Heights. It…
Response from Pew Research Center to “In Polls We Trust”
The following is an official response from the Pew Research Center to Robert Wuthnow’s article, “In Polls…
Robert Wuthnow Replies to the Pew Research Center
The following is a reply by Robert Wuthnow to the Pew Research Center’s official response to his article, “In…
God and Donald Trump
The closest I have ever come to meeting Donald John Trump was during a visit to Manhattan…
Our Potemkin Life
Several weeks ago, I was having dinner with friends in the town of Bridgewater, PA—a sliver of…
Renewing My Plea: Humanae Vitae after Obergefell
Some months back, I made a plea—that the Church not yield on withholding the Eucharist from divorced…
We Need Institutions and Trust
Imagine you are part of that growing majority of Americans who do not watch Fox News, listen…
An American Virgil
Among the more adventurous sallies in church décor in recentmemory is the dancing saints sequence at San Francisco’s…
