American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

The Education Reform Dodge

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

Smart Schools, Smart Kids: Why Do Some Schools Work? by Edward B. Fiske Simon & Schuster 303…

The American Battlefield

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America by James Davison Hunter Basic Books, 416 pages, $25 On…

The Naked Public Square: A Metaphor Reconsidered

Richard John Neuhaus

Christian groups called “Adventist” trace their roots to 1844, the year that some had fixed for the…

Editorial: What Should We Do About the Poor?

The Editors

Some will protest that the question posed by that title is outrageously wrongheaded. To ask what we…

Utopian Passions

David Horowitz

“Workers of the world . . . forgive me.”    —Graffiti on a statue of Karl Marx  Moscow,…

How To Restore Religious Freedom: A Debate

Mark E. Chopko et al.

The March issue of First Things included a Declaration in support of the proposed Religious Freedom Restoration…

South African Prospects

John H. Chettle

A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society by Donald L. Horowitz University of California…

Nothing But Muck

Robert Goldberg

Scandal: The Culture of Mistrust in American Politics by Suzanne Garment Random House, 335 pages, $23 At…

Declinism—and Fall?

Dean C. Curry

Why America Doesn’t Work by Chuck Colson and Jack Eckerd Word Publishing, 227 pages, $16.99 In Why…

The Big Economic Lie

Michael Novak

There they go again. The presidential election of 1992 is bringing out among politicians and the media…

The RU-486 Icon

Peter J. Leithart

In A. S. Byatt’s recent novel, Possession, the main character notes that the one unchallenged dogma of his generation…

What I Saw at the American Academy of Religion

Paul V. Mankowski

The American Academy of Religion, in its statement of purpose, calls itself “an inclusive learned society and…

The Catholic Public Servant

James L. Buckley

The Supreme Court is not exempt from the law of unintended consequences. The Court may have anticipated…

The Earnest Methodist

Richard Brookhiser

Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam: Paladin of Liberal Protestantism by robert moats miller abingdon press, 624 pages, $29.95…

The Hidden America

Richard John Neuhaus

More Americans attend church or synagogue each week of the year than attend professional sports events in…