American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Culture and the Light of Faith

Robert Louis Wilken

Since the Enlightenment it has been fashionable to denounce Christians for prostituting the legacy of classical culture.…

Magnificat

Len Krisak

Already gravid, she ascended, nearly bereft of any solace, faith, or hope. The pregnant matron, proudly and…

Race Matters

James Nuechterlein

Americans like to think of their history as a success story. And so, by most measures, and…

A Philosopher in the Twilight

David Bentley Hart

In his preface to the Philosophy of Right, Hegel famously remarks that the owl of Minerva takes…

Letters

Various

Bearing Witness through marriage Liberal evangelical Ron Sider makes a strong case in favor of the ancient…

Father Tom Leads the Faithful in Prayer

Timothy Murphy

We pray first for our Pope. Lend him the strength to cope with those who have no…

Pilgrimage

Michael McFee

Six days a week, this solo pilgrimage across the wildnerness of weedy sloughs and uphill root-snares and…

The Real Myth

Gerald J. Russello

The Myth of American Religious Freedom by David Sehat Oxford, 368 pages, $29.95 n Conservatives, argues David…

The Catholic I Am

Gilbert Meilaender

In recent years those of us who are Lutherans have witnessed a steady stream of Lutheran theologians—many…

Two Davids

David W. Landrum

Michelangelo’s David is too smooth and fair and too Italian”too much like a boy who’d stand with…

A Review of Redeeming Economics

Joseph Lawler

Redeeming Economics: Rediscovering the Missing Element by John D. Mueller ISI Books, 400 pages, $27.95 n Harry…

A Review of Early Modern Jewry

Debra Glasberg Gail

Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History by David B. Ruderman Princeton, 336 pages, $35 n “Early,…

Tough

Deborah Warren

The Spartan boy who steals a fox endures with fortitude the roiling mound scratching at his proud…

The Man Who Would Be King

Gary A. Anderson

1 Samuel: Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible by Francesca Aran Murphy Brazos, 336 pages, $34.99 n…

Gargoyle

Mark Amorose

Consider the fierce stone features of its face a vaccination of demonic strain, a backfire lit on…