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Home: Core Subjects: Politics and Government: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Politics and Government: LINKS_PAGEArticles:A Man for all Seasons: an Historian's Demur - Marvin O'ConnellConscience for St. Thomas More was the right to be right, not the right to be wrong. Read more... A New Order of Religious Freedom - Father Richard John NeuhausThe great problem today is not the threat that religion poses to public life, but the threat that the state, presuming to embody public life, poses to religion. Read more... A Philosophical and Historical Analysis of Modern Democracy,on the American - Rev. Joseph M. de TorreThe concept of democracy was born in Greece, but did not come to maturity in that culture, mainly because of their poor concept of equality. The impact of Christianity was necessary in order to achieve a full awareness of the fundamental equality of all men, which was generally absent outside the Biblical tradition. Read more... A Year of Living Dangerously - Francis FukuyamaThere is good reason for thinking that a critical source of contemporary radical Islamism lies not in the Middle East, but in Western Europe. Read more... Alito and the Catholics - Joseph BottumThis may be the best time in American history to be a Catholic, and it may also be the worst: a moment of triumph after 200 years of outsiderness, and an occasion of mockery and shame. Read more... America through Arab Eyes - Nicholas Jubber and Michael HirstThe “war on terrorism” cannot be separated from the conflict between Israel and Palestine, nor from the effort to achieve stable and effective government in the Arab world. Read more... American Patriotism: A View from Abroad - Donald DeMarcoGrowing up in Massachusetts, I naturally imbibed a patriotic atmosphere. In the movies I was treated to the foot-tapping music of George M. Cohan performed with patriotic gusto by the inimitable Jimmy Cagney. In school, we were obliged to memorize Sit Walter Scott's "The Lay of the Last Minstrel". The intimidating power of the opening lines has never left me. Read more... America’s Ten Commandments - Michael NovakAll over the country, the ACLU has been filing suits to remove the Ten Commandments from public buildings, winning some, losing some. The oddest thing is, if the ACLU project of removing God from public testimony should win, their victory would hurt the ACLU most of all. Read more... An American Afghani’s Remarks - Tamim AnsaryI've been hearing a lot of talk about "bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone Age." I heard some TV pundit discussing whether we "have the belly to do what must be done." I thought about the issues being raised especially hard because I am from Afghanistan, and even though I've lived here for 35 years I've never lost track of what's going on there. So I want to tell anyone who will listen how it all looks from where I'm standing. Read more... An Anglican future, made in Africa - Father Raymond J. de SouzaIt has been remarked for a long time that the centre of gravity in the Christian world is shifting from north to south, from North America and Europe to Africa and Asia. The meeting of Anglican Primates this past week in Tanzania might be marked as the moment when that shift made its first global impact. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 19-Nov-2009 - 16:58:19
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