American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Reluctant Skeptic
Chapter and Verse: A Skeptic Revisits Christianity by mike bryan random house, 324 pages, $22 Mike Bryan…
1991 December Letters
The Evils of Capitalism While I agree with some of Peter Berger’s observations in “Capitalism: The Continuing…
Roger’s Versions
The Philosopher on Dover Beach: Essays by roger scruton st. martin’s press, 350 pages, $24.95 Unusually for…
Editorial: Euthanasia: Final Exit, Final Excuse
At year’s end, the eyes of the world turn again to an infant who is, so Christians…
The Feminist Revelation
That is the title of an important article in Social Philosophy & Policy (Vol. VIII, No. 1)…
A Rabbi’s Christmas
In order not to raise false hopes in the hearts of those who still have the expectation…
A Protestant Shtetl
Just east of Chattanooga, four miles north of the Georgia state line and six miles up the…
Abortion on Second Thought
I was a teenager and young adult in the late 1960s and early 1970s, before Roe v.…
The Mindless Self: Freud Triumphant
In the heat of the anguished nineteenth-century debate over evolutionary theory, Samuel Butler declared that Darwin had…
In A Field Of Weeds
“Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.” —Pascal, Pensées…
Abortion and the Actualized Self
The Choices We Made (Angela Bonavoglia, 1990) is the latest collection of sympathetic abortion narratives, a genre…
Poverty & the Victim Ploy
In 1936, Harry Hopkins made a speech defending the honor of the poor. I am getting sick…
When Jews Are Christians
I By now it is obvious that in the past twenty-five years or so there has been…
The Present and Future Church
At the dawning of this century, Christians in Europe and North America harbored great expectations. Many leaders…
Tough-minded Feminism
Power Trips and Other Journeys: Essays in Feminism as Civic Discourse by jean bethke elshtain university of…