American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Domesticating Darwin
In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought by carl…
An Authentic Modernity
The Ethics of Authenticity by charles taylor harvard university press, 142 pages, $17.95 To grow up in…
The Homesick Homeless
Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy by jay tolson simon & schuster, 544 pages,…
The Newtape File III
Dear Nephew, I trust it did not escape your notice that I have eliminated an affectionate diminutive…
Ignorant Armies
The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism by ronald l. numbers knopf, 458 pages, $27.50 Ronald L.…
Why That God Failed
Retreat from the Finland Station: Moral Odysseys in the Breakdown of Communism by kenneth murphy free press,…
Educating for Freedom?
An Aristocracy of Everyone: The Politics of Education and The Future of America by benjamin r. barber…
Attention Must Be Paid
Multiculturalism and “The Politics of Recognition” an essay by charles taylor with commentary by amy gutmann (editor),…
What Is To Be Learned From “The Church in Socialism”
The Public Square At Boston University’s Institute for the Study of Economic Culture, headed by sociologist Peter…
The Newtape File II
Dear Nephew, my hellborn one, Ah, how I delight in writing you as my esteemed Uncle, Screwtape,…
Walker Percy and the Christian Scandal
In Washington, where he was to give the eighteenth Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on May 3,…
Picture Perfect: The Politics of Prenatal Testing
During the past two decades, prenatal screening for fetal defects has become a standard part of nearly…
Women, Ordination, and Angels
When Dr. George Carey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, visited Pope John Paul II in May 1992, the…
Momento Mori
What do the living know about the dead? I was called upon to wonder when the well-meaning…
Jesus Through the Eyes of John Rawls
Of late I have been reading John B. Meier’s A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. I…
