John DiIulio’s fascinating book takes religious moderation too far.
Alan Wolfe
Alan Wolfe is the director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College and is writing a book on why liberalism matters.
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For America
Anti-Americanism By Jean-François Revel, translated from the French by Diarmid Cammell, Encounter Books, 280 pages, $25.95 On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense By David Brooks, Simon and Schuster, 352 pages, $25.00 Jean-François-Revel, author of the best-selling Without Marx or Jesus, wrote Anti-Americanism to […]
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Liberalism and Catholicism
In the years immediately after World War II, American liberals split apart over their attitudes toward communism. Those who called themselves progressives rallied around the presidential campaign of Henry Wallace in 1948, despite evidence aplenty that the Communist Party was disproportionately calling Wallace’s shots. Others, including the founders of Americans for Democratic Action, fashioned themselves […]
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State of the Debate: The Moral Meanings of Work
How should we think about work — as just a necessary burden that we’d like to cut to a minimum or as the organizing focus of our lives? A number of new books about work, culture, and family suggest that we need to work for more than bread alone.
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The Power Elite Now
Power in America today looks far different from the picture that C. Wright Mills painted nearly half a century ago.
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Whose Body Politic?
The boundaries between public and private are murkier than ever.
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Up From Humanism
Some may feel that “stronger”, “deeper” forms of environmentalism must be better. But watch out. Our great ecological awakening has led to some deeply anti-human philosophies.
