American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Wealth and Whimsy: On Economic Creativity
The question is: What are the theological resources of the Christian tradition for understanding the production of…
How to Think About the Family: Ten Suggestions
Over the past decade, the “family” has gone public. Popular opinion is clearly worried about it. Everyone…
Intra-Tribal Warfare
Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes by laurence h. tribe norton, 259 pages, $19.95 Abortion: The Clash of…
A Man of Contradictions
Kazantzakis: Politics of the Spirit by peter bien princeton university press, 318 pages, $29.95 By the time…
Poverty and Morality
The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare by michael b. katz…
Being Modern
Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity by charles taylor harvard university press, 601…
Sakharov’s Legacy
At his funeral a close friend remarked: “It’s been said a village cannot stand without its preacher.…
Ecotastrophe Again
The drumbeat for apocalypse can once again be heard in the media. Almost two decades after the…
Schools on Purpose
For each of the past twenty-one years the Gallup Organization has conducted a nationwide poll on attitudes…
Leaf with Berry
At the last rock of the last ledge of the last climb, retreat blocked, he went to…
The Shadows
Easy to forget, how shadows are light’s creatures, out of dark, out of thinning dark come delicately,…
Michael Harrington’s Socialism
Socialism: Past and Future by michael harrington arcade publishing, 320 pages, $19.95 If one is going to…
Never the Twain
Japan: In the Land of the Brokenhearted by michael shapiro henry holt & company, 254 pages, $19.95 In…
The Fate of Republicanism
Revolt against Destiny: An Intellectual History of the United States by paul a. carter columbia university press,…
The Transcendent in the Mundane
Ordinary Time by a. g. mojtabai doubleday, 223 pages, $17.95 A.G. Mojtabai’s nonfiction work, Blessed Assurance, won…
