American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Right to Be a Lady
The hour is coming, in fact has come, when the vocation of women is being acknowledged in…
October Letters
My Words Fly Up, My Thoughts Remain Below I was disappointed in reading Robert Miola’s article on…
An Apostle Falls
Betrayal had fulfilled the prophecy. Too proud for penance and too weak to run, he strung himself…
Righting Wrongs and Wronging Rights
Justice: Rights and Wrongs by Nicholas Wolterstorff Princeton University Press, 416 pages, $39.50 Nicholas Wolterstorff is a…
Making Business Moral
Business is a calling, even a vocation. It is, to be sure, a way of making a…
A Lesson in Deep Ecology
Deep ecology, a movement launched by the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess in 1972, may be contrasted to…
There Will Be Blood
“Can everything around here be got?” oil man Daniel Plainview asks. “Sure” is the reply. And so…
Kangaroo Canada
Mark Steyn is the author of the bestselling America Alone , a witty tirade against the decline…
The Very Autonomous Steven Pinker
In May, Steven Pinker published in the New Republic a jeremiad against dignity as a tool of…
Someone’s Property
Frederick Douglass: Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalism by Peter C. Myers University Press of Kansas,…
Scalia and the Lure of the Natural Law
Scenes from a dinner in Washington ten years ago: Irving Kristol: “What was in the Second Amendment,…
Looking for Mary in Christmas Carols
It’s Christmas, so we’re singing carols. OK, it’s not Christmas, it’s really Advent, and “carol” has a…
How to Think About the Responsibility to Protect
When Cyclone Nargis hit Burma a month ago, killing as many as a hundred thousand people, the…
The Transformation of Belfast
Belfast, Northern Ireland. For many people outside the British Isles, that name evokes images of shootings, bomb…
The Zone
A zone of promise throbs along the horizon where May meets June. Sweet leaf or sap smells:…
