American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Candid Word About An Untold Story
A hundred and seventy one thousand is a lot of people. That is how many adults came…
Managed by Care
The year was 1962. My sister was eagerly preparing for the brave new world of junior high.…
Conflicts Foreign and Domestic
Among my earliest political memories are the debates I had as a young teenager with my father…
As the New Millennium Begins
The Public Square At the conclusion of the Year of the Great Jubilee, John Paul II issued…
Peter and Mary Together
In “Evangelicals in the Church of Mary” (December 2000), Daniel P. Moloney addresses the problems involved when…
Poetry
Here lyeth . . . (Sarah?) Drake beneath the floor, a Persian carpet lapped across her stone…
The Future of the Papacy: A Symposium
In the February issue First Things published the Erasmus Lecture of 2000, “Papacy and Power,” by George…
Unremarkably Lutheran
When given the option,” Garrison Keillor tells us, “Lutherans will always downsize.” So far as I can…
Papacy and Power
Pope John Paul II’s considerable effect on our times is conceded by admirers and critics alike. The…
Minding the Evangelical Mind
Those of us who call ourselves “evangelical scholars” are accustomed to suspicion from the church and incredulity…
Defining the Humanities Up
Reading a new edition of Allen Tate’s collected essays (Essays of Four Decades, ISI Books, 640 pp.,…
In the Name of Humanity: Reflections on the Twentieth Century
French philosopher Alain Finkiel kraut’s subtle essay on humanism and its discontents grapples with a big question:…
What Jacques Barzun Believes, Maybe
The Public Square I share fully the pleasure that our reviewer, John J. Reilly, takes in Jacques…
Joe Lieberman as Rorschach Test
As this issue goes to press, the result of the November election is unknown. But whatever the…
The Human Genome in Human Context
On June 26, two teams of scientists announced jointly that they had virtually completed the task of…
