American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
My Mother’s Smile
Her hair still hardly touched with grey, and wound in gleaming braids around her head, my mother,…
The Births of Aphrodite and Athena
The one swirled out of foam, the other mind; The one disturbs the fish, like bright, lost…
The Stocking Feeder
The stocking feeder was an instant hit: Birds came as soon as I suspended it Above the…
Homo Immolans
On Sacrifice by Moshe Halbertal Princeton, 152 pages, $24.95 Moshe Halbertal, a professor of Jewish thought at…
Quaker Meeting, Late Winter
I watch the dust motes dance, be tossed on eddies in the sun-streak in its minute advance…
Travel Magazine Revised
The beauty luring men aboard the ship In time’s a wreck, unsightly and ignored. The handsome playboy…
Childish Adults
Childism: Confronting Prejudice Against Children by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Yale, 368 pages, $28 n With three pre-schoolers in…
The Battle Already Won
If we believe in the sure triumph of Christ, why do we allow ourselves to be drawn…
The Jewish Mission
Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission…
Mixed Blessings
Thanksgiving Day, 2010 The turkey’s in the oven. My bare feet rest on the windowsill. A welcome…
Letters
After Liberalism As a student of late medieval political thought, I was happy to see that my…
A Spade to Dig With
For a large part of the past school year, my daughter and her classmates went to school…
The Genius of the Women Saints
This Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI will canonize seven new saints. His honorees include four women, two of…
While We’re At It – Pt. IV
• We all have a romantic image of monks patiently copying texts in their scriptoria, with the…
Human Unity Real and Imagined
Every epoch has its secular religion, a perverse imitation of Christianity that takes part of the Christian…
