Gene McCarthy and Robert F. Kennedy

by Michael Novak

Bobby was already my favorite among the Kennedy brothers, the one I felt a closer bond to. Continue Reading »

15 Aug 2006

The Founding of Nations

by Wilfred M. McClay

Did the United States really have a beginning that can be called its . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2006

Lincoln on Judicial Despotism

by Robert P. George

After the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education ordering the desegregation of public schools in Topeka, Kansas, lawsuits promptly were brought to dismantle legally sanctioned segregation in other states. One of these was Arkansas. There, Governor Orville Faubus and . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2003

The Cultural Revolution of Fascism

by Brian C. Anderson

The Fascist Revolution: Toward a General Theory of Fascismby george l. mossehoward fertig. 230 pp. $35. Everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing above the state.” So Benito Mussolini trumpeted the ideal of fascism, the wild-eyed political movement that he rode to power in Italy . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2000

The Church and the City

by M. Francis Mannion

Since the official validation of Christianity in the fourth century, ecclesiastical leaders have built places of worship in central and highly visible locations. They were not motivated just by grandeur and power. In addition, they sensed that, to be authentic, Christian presence in the world must . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2000

Augustine Then and Now

by Glenn Tinder

Living in Two Cities:  Augustinian Trajectories in Political Thought.By Eugene TeSelle.University of Scraton Press.  227 pp. $19.95 Augustine is a thinker for all seasons and all times in the portrait that emerges from Eugene TeSelle’s Living in Two Cities. TeSelle is intimately . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 1999

The Elusive Hamilton

by George McKenna

Alexander Hamilton, American by richard brookhiser simon & schuster, 240 pages, $16.99 National Review senior editor Richard Brookhiser has followed up his successful 1996 biography of George Washington (Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington) with a biography of Alexander Hamilton. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 1999

What a Woman Ought to Think

by Margaret Kim Peterson

This is the “hiring season” for those of us in academia, the time of year when faculty search committees sift through piles of applications for teaching jobs for the coming academic year, and when PhD candidates like me wait nervously for the telephone to ring with invitations for job . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 1998

Saving Liberalism’s Soul

by Peter Berkowitz

On good liberal grounds alone, academic liberals should appreciate David Walsh’s powerful new defense of . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 1997

Consecrating the President

by David M. Smolin

This month a hundred million Americans will watch a United States Supreme Court Justice once again ask a President-elect to place his hand upon a Christian Bible and swear an oath of allegiance to the Constitution of the United States. The candidate will end his oath with “so help me God,” and . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 1997