Chronicles Magazine Politcs

With Malice Toward Many: Washington, Lincoln, and God

Tom Landess - NOVEMBER 01, 2007

Most Americans in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries believed in the public expression of religious sentiments as surely as they believed in publicly proclaiming their patriotism. Such expression was not merely their right; it was their duty.

Perspective

Freedom of Conscience
Thomas Fleming - NOVEMBER 01, 2007
The Illinois legislature recently overrode Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s veto of what the newspapers are describing as mandatory-school-prayer legislation.
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VIEWS

Dobson’s Choice: Politics and the Spirit of Martyrdom
Aaron D. Wolf - NOVEMBER 01, 2007
During the 1990’s, under the guidance of Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich, the Christian Right learned to hate Hillary Clinton, and all her lies, and all her empty promises.
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NEWS

Clueless in the Congress: The Reauthorization of a Reckless Bill
Beverly Eakman - NOVEMBER 01, 2007
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the No Child Left Behind Act are up for reauthorization again. This process typically entails legislators tweaking the bill—a caveat here, a zinger there. Almost always, it translates into more money.
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REVIEWS

The Strange Case of the Missing Constitution
Clyde Wilson - NOVEMBER 01, 2007
Some acute scholar of future times, should there ever be such, will perhaps ponder over the very strange career of the United States Constitution—how it came, without changing a word, to be understood almost universally to mean things it did not...
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REVIEWS

Horsemen, Draw Nigh!
H.A. Scott Trask - NOVEMBER 01, 2007
The title of Chalmers Johnson’s latest book, the last in his trilogy of empire, invokes the Greek goddess of retribution. He named the first book in his trilogy after the CIA term for the harmful unintended consequences that sometimes result...
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The Rockford Files

Inside the Gates
Scott P. Richert - NOVEMBER 01, 2007
Fr. Brian A.T. Bovee, the rector of Saint Mary’s Oratory in Rockford, sometimes calls his church Santa Maria Inter Carceres—Saint Mary’s Among the Jails. It’s a (half-)joking reference to the oratory’s location just to the west of the Public...
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Chronicles Magazine Politcs

With Malice Toward Many: Washington, Lincoln, and God

Freedom of Conscience

Dobson’s Choice: Politics and the Spirit of Martyrdom

Clueless in the Congress: The Reauthorization of a Reckless Bill

The Strange Case of the Missing Constitution

Horsemen, Draw Nigh!

Inside the Gates

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