American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
On Bringing One’s Life to a Point
In February of 1994, in what was its March issue, First Things published a statement on the…
Life at the Intellectual Barricades
“But why do you have to be so polemical?” It’s a not unfamiliar complaint (see, for example,…
Jungians and Gnostics
Heresies perish not with their authors, but like the river Arethusa, though they lose their currents in…
Learning from Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre is not, to put it mildly, very high on the reading list of those seeking…
The Hipster and the Organization Man
From all appearances, it is now back in style to be critical of American individualism. Indeed, that…
It’s the Culture, Stupid
What really happened in the 1992 presidential election? And what does it tell us about American politics…
Liberalism vs. Religious Freedom
Religious Liberty in the Supreme Court: The Cases that Define the Debate over Church and State terry…
Abortion Facts and Feelings
The story is told of a young student from an exotic place, a colonial dependency of Britain,…
Hatred Under Ice?
There is by now a well-established conventional view about the eruptions of ethnic hatred in Eastern Europe…
Cosmic Questions
Dreams of a Final Theory by steven weinberg pantheon, 338 pages, $25 In the second-to-last chapter of…
The Fifties Without Soul
This is not a book review, it’s a complaint. I have been reading—and, I confess, enormously enjoying—David…
Evil: Back in Bad Company
Most Christian thinkers have viewed evil as a privation, a derivative reality, like a shadow. Shadows are…
Legal Ethics—Worlds in Collision
Chicago’s financial district and the seat of its city government are only a few blocks apart, yet…
Christian Conviction & Democratic Etiquette
According to a bit of street wisdom that has worked its way into the national vocabulary, “You…
The Homosexual Movement
I. The New Thing Homosexual behavior is a phenomenon with a long history, to which there have…
