American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Hating the Teens We Indulge

Agnes Howard

A young woman in the house helps the once idealistic parent to see the error in assuming…

Converting the Canvas

Matthew Milliner

Earthly Visions: Theology and the Challenges of Art by timothy gorringe yale university press, 254 pages, $45…

Evangelical Advantages

Mark A. Noll

The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture by Christian Smith…

Romanticism Unbound

Jeffrey A. Smith

The Romantic Revolution: A History by tim blanning modern library, 272 pages, $22 The very aim that…

A Disposition of Delight

Elizabeth Corey

After his death in 1990, Michael Oakeshott’s executors found dozens of unpublished but completed essays in the…

Faith-Based Voting

Carson Holloway

I think Mitt Romney’s a good, moral man,” Southern Baptist pastor Robert Jeffress told CNN at last…

Briefly Noted

Various

Anything Goes ?by Theodore Dalrymple New English Review Press, 218 pages, $19.95 n In much learning there…

A Case for Later Marriage

Elise Ehrhard

At my parish moms’ club, mothers arrive in the church hall with their preschoolers and toddlers ready…

Disestablishing Our Secular Schools

Charles L. Glenn

Just about everyone agrees that one reason religious belief and practice have flourished in the United States,…

A Philosophy for the Powerful

R. R. Reno

Once animated by revolutionary ardor, our secular intellectuals have reached a dead end. Today they pen books…

Uncanny Man

Thomas S. Hibbs

A Case for Irony by Jonathan Lear Harvard, 224 pages, $29.95 Not long before 9/11, a young…

Homeschooling’s Liberalism

David Mills

The other day someone asked about our children, and my answer worried him, or at least he…

A Balanced Mind

Philip S. Gorski

Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World Without Becoming a Bore by Peter L.…

The Death of Isaac Nathan, 1864

Les Murray

Stone statues of ancient waves tongue like dingoes on shore in time with wave-glitter on the harbor…

Leo Steinberg’s Artistic Vision

Dianne Phillips

Hundreds of Renaissance paintings of the Madonna and Child represent the Christ Child with his genitals blatantly…