American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Feminist as Paranoid
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi Crown, 549 pages, $24 Look out: here…
Character and Poverty
Poverty And Compassion: The Moral Imagination Of The Late Victorians by gertrude himmelfarb knopf, 475 pages, $30…
A Lutheran Affirmation
No Other Gospel! Christianity Among The World Religions by carl e. braaten fortress press, 142 pages, $10.95…
Church-State Conundrums
Original Intent: Chief Justice Rehnquist and the Course of American Church/State Relations by derek davis prometheus books,…
Being Jewish in Public
For a long time, precisely as long as Judaism was marginal to my life, the strict separation…
What Americans Really Think About Abortion
At the foundation of any democratic society is the principle that the laws that order our lives…
Hindu Nationalism, Indian Democracy
India’s post-independence generation of leaders sought to keep religion at arm’s length from politics, regarding religion as…
Abortion and Political Compromise
Roe v. Wade is clearly in for substantial pruning—possibly even an outright overruling—in the near future. Thus…
Feminism and Feminism
We get these letters saying that we should not refer to “radical feminism” since all feminism is…
Editorial: The Corruption of the Would-Be First Estate
The fourth estate now considers itself to be the first estate, and not without reason. In public…
The Rapist and the Virgin
It may just have been a throwaway line, a presumed witticism, to which he gave little thought;…
Naming Good and Evil
Eighty-one years ago, G. K. Chesterton wrote a book entitled What’s Wrong With the World? His answer to…
Catholicism and the American Proposition
The year 1991 marked the centenary of modern Catholic social teaching—the issuing of the encyclical Rerum Novarum by Pope…
Repent Ye!
Jesus is coming repent Ye!reads the scrawled signof this man who is not John the Baptistbut who…
Safari
The white man has laid down his burdenin the middle of Broadwayand under the exhausted plane treesblack…
