Exodus: Why Americans are Fleeing Liberal Churches for Conservative Christianity by David Shiflett (Sentinel, 224 pages, $23.95) Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America by Chris Hedges (Free Press, 224 pages, $24.00) These are tough times for liberal Christians. To hear most members of the media tell it, “liberal Christian” […]
Amy Sullivan
Amy Sullivan is a doctoral candidate in sociology at Princeton University and the author of the Web log Political Aims.
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The Catholic Paradox
A People Adrift: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America By Peter Steinfels, Simon & Schuster, 416 pages, $26.00 Can the Catholic Church as we know it survive in America? This is the question raised by Peter Steinfels’ tough-love letter to fellow Catholics, A People Adrift. It is no secret that […]
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Solicitor General
After Rush Limbaugh’s comments about race and football sparked controversy last week, presidential candidates Howard Dean and Wesley Clark were quick to jump on the anti-Limbaugh bandwagon. Dean called Limbaugh’s remarks “unacceptable” (though his campaign also made a gaffe in referring to Donovan McNabb as the quarterback of the “Philadelphia Jets”) while Clark derided the […]
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The Biases Are Loaded
WHAT LIBERAL MEDIA? The Truth About Bias and the News By Eric Alterman Basic. 322 pp. $25 Everyone knows that conservatives win when they play hardball. But they also win at softball. Among congressional staff in Washington, the hallowed summer tradition of softball games on the National Mall is, in many ways, a microcosm of […]
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Partial Issue
If you coughed during the State of the Union address, you might have missed it: Tucked between paeans to faith-based drug-treatment programs and promises to fund AIDS medication was a two-sentence pledge to ban “partial-birth” abortion. It was a quick shout-out to the president’s base supporters in the middle of a speech on tax cuts, […]
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Sticks And Stones
Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) is mad as heck, and he’s not going to take itanymore. First he appeared on the Senate floor in September to protestaccusations made by President Bush that Senate Democrats are “notinterested in the security of the American people.” The vehemence ofDaschle’s speech — in which he whipped off his glasses and […]
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Snowe Days for Democrats?
While the nation scrutinizes Florida to guess the outcome of thepresidential race, somebody had better keep an eye on Auburn,Maine, the home of the Democrats’ best chance to take backthe Senate. Although the anticipated fight for control of theHouse of Representatives has fizzled in a wave of incumbentreelections, the normally staid Senate could yet be […]