American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Bible Inside and Out
James L. Kugel has long been something of an outside insider”or maybe an inside outsider. In the…
Class and the Classroom
Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites by Mitchell L. Stevens Harvard University Press,…
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Myth and Thought Among the Greeks by Jean-Pierre Vernant Zone, 505 pages, $25 The superciliousness of Vernant’s…
The Pious Infidel
Though the most Deistic of the Founding Fathers, even Jefferson was not a full-fledged Deist if we…
Liberalism’s Troubled Search for Equality
In Liberalism’s Troubled Search for Equality , Robert P. Jones takes the measure of contemporary assisted-suicide advocacy…
The Offense of Piety
The intemperate, even violent tone in recent criticisms of faith is quite striking. Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens: They…
The Giving and Taking of Organs
In The Patient as Person , published almost forty years ago, when transplantation technology was still in…
Lincoln and the Will of God
The famed nineteenth-century mystic Nettie Colburn Maynard wasn’t a professional writer”her time spent communing with the Next…
The Judgment of Memory
I My wife dreams of Brazilian cities: Salvador da Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, enormous South American cityscapes…
What McGovern Wrought
Why the Democrats Are Blue: Secular Liberalism and the Decline of the People’s Party by Mark Stricherz…
God Returns to French Philosophy
Counter-Experiences: Reading Jean-Luc Marion edited by Kevin Hart University of Notre Dame Press, 496 pages, $40 René…
Incantation
The carapace of each past day: undo. Let the scales fall and if remote and small still…
Religious Freedom Upside Down (and a word on William F. Buckley Jr.)
Steven D. Smith, professor of law at the University of San Diego, has an admirable review of…
Reproduction and Public Discourse
Benedict XVI recently asked the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to turn its attention to…
The Pope and the United Nations
The pope has John Allen worried. In a column published in the New York Times , Allen,…
