Gary Dorrien
Reinhold's era
From the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s Reinhold Niebuhr spent his summers in the northwestern Massachusetts village...
Occupational hazards: The U.S. debate over Iraq's future
The intellectuals and policymakers who want America to maintain its “unipolar” dominance in the world agreed that the U.S. needed to overthrow the Baathist regime in Iraq....
Axis of one: The 'unipolarist' agenda
Many critics of the U.S. plans for going to war in Iraq point to oil as a motive. If that is true, it is worrisome indeed....
Slime-master
Long before Bill Clinton trashed his presidency by lying about his adulterous relationship with Monica Lewinsky, the po...
Truth claims: The future of postliberal theology
Postliberal theology has affirmed the decisive significance and the integrity of the biblical narrative. But in what way do postliberals affirm the truth of Christianity?...
Left to the end: Socialist in the wilderness
The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington, by Maurice Isserman.
...The vital center
The Emphatic Christian Center: Reforming American Political Practice, by Kyle A. Pasewark and Garrett E. Paul
...Too much irony
For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Today, by Jedediah Purdy
Soul of a Citzen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time, by Paul Rogat Loeb
From world war to cold war, liberalism to liberationism
Building a Protestant Left: Christianity and Crisis Magazine, 1941-1993.
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