American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Teaching Christian Humanism
Once we’ve denounced the balderdash that all too often passes for teaching in contemporary American colleges, there…
Madison’s Madison
The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic by lance banning…
When Rights Are Wrong
It is common in some circles to say that our legal system worries too much about rights…
The Domesticated Nietzsche
Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist by peter berkowitz harvard university press, 313 pages, $35 A consensus…
Lost in the Movies
Last year I saw two truly vile movies, Pulp Fiction and Kids. The first turned my stomach.…
Post-Communism and Its Discontents
In the exciting days of November 1989, during the occupation strike at Charles University in Prague, the…
Living Under Authority
Chinese astronomers Hi and Ho were put to death for failing to foretell the solar eclipse of…
I Heart New York
When the Editor-in-Chief of this journal invited me to come East to work with him and his…
God, Man, and H. L. Mencken
Mencken: A Lifeby fred hobsonrandom house, 650 pages, $35 H. L. Mencken, My Life as Author and…
The Ultimately Liberal Condition
Things are in the saddle and ride mankind,” complained Ralph Waldo Emerson a century and a half…
The Case for Immigration
Immigration and Immigrants: Setting the Record Straight by michael fix and jeffrey s. passel urban institute, 104…
The Capital of Ambivalence
Modernity and Crises of Identity: Culture and Society in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna by jacques le rider translated by…
The Religious Right as Terrible Threat, Utter Irrelevance, or Something Else
The cover of the New Republic picture this big thick book titled The Constitution of the United…
Killing Abortionists: A Symposium
Paul J. Hill, convicted of killing an abortionist and his security guard in Pensacola, Florida, has advanced…
Christianity and the West
The importance of Christianity in the formation of Western civilization can hardly be denied. That importance is…
