American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Lift Me, Lord
Lift me, Lord, for I fall and nothing stays me, loveless and heedless, without faith or fear.…
Talking to Lord Newborough
(Lt. William Charles Wynn, 1873-1916, 4th Baron Newborough, whose grave overlooks the Vale of Ffestiniog in North…
The Right Wrongs
The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in the Age of Terror by Michael Ignatieff Princeton University Press, 212…
Maritain’s True Humanism
In the course of his long life, French philosopher Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) adopted a series of different…
The Bad Divorce
We’re Still Family: What Grown Children Have to Say About Their Parents’ Divorceby constance ahrons harpercollins 304 pages $24.95…
Orthodoxy and Reticence
It has been forty years since my revered teacher Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, popularly known as “the Rav”…
Briefly Noted 7
Political Visions & Illusions: A Survey and Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies. By David T. Koyzis. InterVarsity.…
Just War, As It Was and Is
The just war tradition came into being during the Middle Ages as a way of thinking about…
The Deist Minimum
As Christianity spread throughout the Greco-Roman world, it became apparent that the biblical doctrines concerning God, morality,…
Bob Casey’s Revenge
I can’t believe I’m losing to this idiot. So said John Kerry during the presidential campaign. Judging…
Rival Immortalities
Human Dignity in the Biotech Century: A Christian Vision for Public Policy edited by Chrles W. Colson…
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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason By Sam Harris W.W. Norton 256pp.…
One Little Word
The Public Square It is an unprecedented “but,” although I expect it will turn out to be…
The Politics of Gratitude
Coriolanus is far from being the most popular of Shakespeare’s plays, but many of us remember the…
2004 December Letters
Just Punishment? In “Capital Punishment: The Case for Justice” (August/September), J. Budziszewski makes a strong argument for…
