The Passing of the Postwar Era
November 13, 2011
How the United States’s international order has faded.
Ballpark Liturgy: America’s New Civic Religion: Cheap Grace at Fenway
July 29, 2011
| A decade of war culminating in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression hasn’t done much good for the country, but it has been strangely good for the Red Sox—and a no-less well funded Pentagon. |
On the Mend? America Comes to Its Senses
June 28, 2011
| At periodic intervals, the American body politic has shown a marked susceptibility to messianic fevers. Whenever an especially acute attack occurs, a sort of delirium ensues, manifesting itself in delusions of grandeur and demented behavior. |
