American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Columbus and the Beginning of the World
As Orson Welles famously remarked, playing the unscrupulous Harry Lime in the film The Third Man: “In…
“Saving” the Poor
The poor will always be with us. Yet, pace Cain, we have an obligation to look after…
Old Ghosts
Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America.By John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr.Yale University Press. 475 pp. $30.…
Impoverished Theology
The Character of God: Recovering the Lost Literary Power of American Protestantismby thomas e. jenkinsoxford, 288 pages,…
The Elusive Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton, American by richard brookhiser simon & schuster, 240 pages, $16.99 National Review senior editor Richard Brookhiser…
The Sexual Counterrevolution
A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue.By Wendy Shalit.Free Press. 304 pp. $24. Despite its modest…
The Mozart Effect
It can cure backache. And asthma. And obesity, writer’s block, alcoholism, schizophrenia, prejudice, heart disease, drug addiction,…
The Future of the End of Democracy
If you want to know why the United States is in a constitutional crisis, a good place…
A Third Way?
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by edward…
How the Court Became Supreme
The past half-century has witnessed the rise to prominence of a constitutional theory that gives the U.S.…
What Aquinas Never Said About Women
If the first casualty of war is the unwelcome truth, the first tool of the discontented is…
Popes for All Seasons
God’s Representatives: The Eight Twentieth-century Popes by james bentleyconstable. 200 pages, £16.95 . Saints and Sinners: A History…
The New Populism
The Great Betrayal by patrick j. buchanan little, brown. 384 pp. $22.95 Readers of a certain age…
The Secularist Faith
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor By David…
Life, Law, and Suicide
The following excerpt is taken from a 1997 supplement of the New York State Task Force on…
