In a 2006 article in the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal , Frederick Mark Gedicks points out the impotence of civil religion in a pluralist society: “The irony of civil religion is that it is supposed to provide a substitute for theestablished church, a means of morally instructing . . . . Continue Reading »
Is America a “Christian nation”? A perennial puzzle, and finally impossible to answer without many “in what respects?” qualifiers. One distinction might help: Presuppose a nation full of Christians, as America was for much of its history. That nation might take various . . . . Continue Reading »
Not classics deconstructed by postmodern theorists, but the classics themselves deconstructing inherited materials. There is a deconstructive element in much of our great fiction and drama. So argues John Gardner in his classic The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers : Shakespeare does . . . . Continue Reading »
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