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IN the wake of September 11, the United States has undertaken a range of new and expanded military commitments, especially in Central Asia and the Middle East. The military occupation [...]

SEVERAL slow-moving but massive changes in American society over the past generation have reconfigured the fault-lines of American politics. Two of these changes--the impact of family structure and religion--are well [...]

MOST every aspect of life in the modern state is exposed to laws and regulations, many of which can have the effect of restricting the free exercise of religion. This [...]

DESPITE my disagreement with some of its specific conclusions and recommendations, I have come to praise the report of the President's Council on Bioethics, not to bury it. The report [...]

THEDA Skocpol is a distinguished sociologist and political scientist who has served as president of the Social Science History Association and the American Political Science Association. While her early work [...]

WHILE the fall of the Berlin wall and collapse of the Soviet Union have relegated George Orwell's 1984 to history's dustbin, the other great dystopian tract of the twentieth century, [...]

Alan Wolfe has long been one of America's ablest sociologists. With his latest book, he emerges as one of our most important public intellectuals as well. In two years spent [...]

As concerns about the economy have faded in 1996, crime has emerged as one of the dominant political issues. To some, this may seem puzzling. After years of partisan wrangling, [...]

As concerns about the economy have faded in 1996, crime has emerged as one of the dominant political issues. To some, this may seem puzzling. After years of partisan wrangling, [...]

WILLIAM A. GALSTON In From Parchment to Power,(*) the eminent constitutional scholar Robert Goldwin has given us the first full narrative of the creation and adoption of the Bill of [...]

With the collapse of communism, and of confidence in command economies, a century-long debate has ended. Markets are now regarded, almost universally, as the principal source of the wealth of [...]

James and Janne Hayes were married in 1941 as 19-year-old college students. They had four children. With one brief exception, Janne Hayes never worked outside the home. After 25 years [...]

DURING the past generation, there has been a dramatic expansion of legalized gambling. Beginning with New Hampshire in 1964, 37 states and the District of Columbia have instituted lotteries. As [...]

JOHN Patrick Diggins doesn't fit neatly into the usual categories. He is pungently impatient with successive waves of academic radicalism--'Frankfurt School Marxism,' 'post-modernism,' 'civic republicanism,' 'multiculturalism,' and 'neopragmatism,' among others. [...]

IT is reported that after Thomas Babington Macaulay, the nineteenth-century British historian and statesman, delivered a typically emphatic speech in the House of Commons, one of his colleagues remarked to [...]

Socrates: The rhetorician and his rhetoric will have the same relation to all the other arts: there is no need for rhetoric to know the facts at all, for it [...]

Discusses the report 'Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry,' issued by the Council on Bioethics in the U.S., which deals with the moral, biomedical, and human significance of human cloning. Charges against the council; Analysis of human goods that cloning might serve or endanger; Impact of the growing biotechnical powers on human life; Goals and limitations of biomedical science.