[…] and pressing. Keys of the Kingdom Sarah’s saga is one of earthly thrones, and Butler addresses the politics of this alternate America quite ably, but the kingdom with which the books are most concerned […]
[…] tend to do so historically, using some version of the canons of history developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to examine the history that the scriptures reflect or portray. The assumption is that […]
Fires were raging in the hills near Hearst Castle in the late summer of 2016. They spread and spread, consuming the Monterey pines and golden hills of the most remote area of the California […]
[…] unlikely to be strongly devoted to industrial democracy. Taft-Hartley and the Right to Work It was the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (better known as the Wagner Act) which declared it to be […]
[…] gram for training women in matters of health, in economics and business affairs, in literature, and in politics. The women were trained to support the men, to be sure, but also to be self-reliant, […]
[…] Fieldhouse in disgust. To say the least, I was preoccupied with the issue of the Church and politics, but what irritated me most was the attempt by so many of my brethren to equate […]
[…] the hand of God in the substantive specifics of the Constitution rather than in the formal procedures and institutions which it establishes? If Providence shaped the American system of government, does it follow that […]
[…] following B. H. Roberts’ efforts to publish what he considered his greatest work, that synthesis of science and religion, The Truth, the Way, the Life. Much of this story, which involved the principal molders […]
[…] was an impossibility. MAD strategy aims at destroying cities, civilians, and nonmilitary targets. According to the Inter national Conventions of Warfare, such a strategy is therefore morally and humanly deplorable. The “nuclear winter” phenomenon […]
[…] in London four years ago, just before the trip to Chartres and Vienna, we saw, at the National Theatre, a version (based on the York cycle) of the medieval “Mystery Plays.” These are the […]