American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Human Dignity, Human Rights
Copyright (c) 1999 First Things 97 (November 1999): 39-42. Fifty years ago, a tangle of intellectual and…
Metaphysics Matters
In Defense of Natural Lawby robert p. georgeclarendon/oxford university press, 343 pages, $65 In his influential book The…
State vs. Society
Behemoth: Main Currents in the History and Theory of Political Sociology.By Irving Louis Horowitz.Transaction. 474 pp. $29.95…
The (Mis)Guided Dream of Graham Greene
Graham Greene was a great novelist of a special kind. Unlike many literary practitioners in this century,…
Separation Anxiety
The Church Impotent: The Feminization of Christianity.By Leon J. Podles.Spence. 350 pp. $27.95 Leon Podles has his…
Culture War No More?
Most American conservatives think they’re engaged in a culture war, and many of them think they’re losing…
Liberating Germaine Greer
I never met Germaine Greer, but I did see her once in live performance—and a most diverting…
Are We Spiritual Machines?
Copyright (c) 1999 First Things 96 (October 1999): 25-31. For two hundred years materialist philosophers have argued…
A Confederate Theodicy
A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South.By Eugene…
The Idea of Moral Progress
Almost everybody agrees that progress is a good thing. But most self-evidently good things, when examined more…
Calvin and the Christian Calling
The sixteenth century was a period of tumultuous change in Western Europe. The need for some kind…
Letter from Budapest
Murderous cruise missiles crash into factories, office buildings, farm houses, all just across the border in Serbia,…
1642 and All That
The Cousins’ Wars: Religion, Politics, Civil Warfare, and the Triumph of Anglo-America. By Kevin Philips. Basic. 651.pp.…
The Archetypes in the Machine
TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information by erik davis. harmony. 368 pp. $25.…
Augustine Then and Now
Living in Two Cities: Augustinian Trajectories in Political Thought.By Eugene TeSelle.University of Scraton Press. 227 pp. $19.95…
