American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Better Than Their Fathers
My fourteen-year-old son has decided he is of the wrong race, culturally at any rate. He wants…
La Belle Tontina
For Nicola I send fond wishes to a horse named TontoAnd you, sweet Nicola, who once was…
An Incredible Lightness of Being
Intellectual Memoirs, 1936–1938 by mary mccarthy harcourt brace jovanovich, 114 pages, $15.95 The novelist and critic Mary…
Remembering Some of the Answers
The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society by arthur m. schlesinger, jr. norton, 160 pages,…
Editorial: Abortion and a Nation at War
Surely, one may devoutly hope, Justice Scalia exaggerates. In his dissent from Planned Parenthood v. Casey (joined…
Tolerance as Catholic Doctrine
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves,” wrote Abraham Lincoln. Is there any…
Two Paths to Black Power
The process of nominating and confirming Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court served to underline the debate…
A Common Enemy, A Common Cause
On June 24, 1992 the Supreme Court handed down Lee v. Weisman, a decision that declares officially…
Why Pluralism Needs Monism
“Vatican II,” George Weigel writes in Freedom and Its Discontents, “posed a basic challenge to the many…
Evangelicals and Economic Development
Earlier this year I was in charge of “debriefing” a small group of evangelical college students who…
Christianity in the Mirror of Jewish Thought
What do modern Jewish thinkers make of Christianity? Is Christianity in their eyes still the oppressive, pervasive…
Plantation
Too late for the tour and the history lesson,too late in the season on this southern plantation,and…
Pluralism and the Otherness of World Religions
I We have witnessed in recent years the flowering of various Christian pluralistic theologies calling for unequivocal…
Hauerwas Examined
After Christendom? by Stanley Hauerwas Abingdon Press, 192 pages, $12.95 Stanley Hauerwas once told me that After…
Don’t Bet Democratic
Minority Party: Why the Democrats Face Defeat in 1992 and Beyond by Peter Brown Regnery Gateway, 350…
