Capital Commentary - by Topic

Abortion

• Pro-Life Rally—35 Years (02/2008)
• The Supreme Court and Partial-Birth Abortion (04/2007)
• Abortion Up, Crime Down? (08/1999)
• Paternal Responsibilities And Abortion Logic (12/1998)
• Inches from Infanticide (04/1996)

Advent

• A Reflection on Advent Politics and Persecution (12/2009)

Africa

• Africa and the G-8 Summit (07/2005)
• Listening to the Sudanese Church in Exile (06/2005)
• God Must Have a Very Large Funny Bone! (05/2005)

Agriculture

• Food, Fuel, and Farming (01/2008)
• Veto the Farm Bill! (05/2002)

Bioethics

• Candidates: Wake Up to Bio-Science Advances! (10/2008)
• A Surprise Consensus on Stem Cells? (02/2008)
• Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died (10/2007)
• Biotechnology and Human Identity (09/2007)
• Genetic Bipartisanship in Congress! (03/2007)
• Stem Cell Veto (07/2006)
• Stem Cell Grail (01/2006)
• The Stem Cell Debate (08/2005)
• Body, Soul, and Stem Cells (11/2004)
• A Ban in Favor of Life (06/2002)

Boy Scouts

• DOSA, Anyone? (08/1999)

Capital Punishment/Death Penalty

• Capital Punishment, Justice, and Timothy McVeigh (05/2001)
• Capital Punishment: For the Exceptional Case (01/1998)
• Justice and Forgiveness (12/1997)

Charitable Choice / Welfare Reform

• Don't Extinguish a Bright Hope for Drug Addicts! (09/2006)
• The Faith-based Initiative—Round Two (03/2005)
• Equal Treatment Lessons from Abroad (04/2004)
• AWOL Again on the Faith-Based Initiative (04/2004)
• Shrinking Religious Liberty (02/2004)
• We Won't Tolerate a Faith-Based Bait and Switch! (09/2003)
• Faith-Based Football (06/2003)
• Pass CARE, Just Don't Stop There! (04/2003)
• The Real Face of the Faith-Based Initiative (01/2003)
• Go for the Substance, Not the Sizzle (12/2002)
• Mugging Civil Rights (10/2002)
• Whose Social Services Are They? (09/2002)
• Why We Should Care about CARE (08/2002)
• Re-Igniting the Faith-Based Initiative (05/2002)
• Charitable Choice in the Courts: Round One (01/2002)
• A Faith-Based Christmas Package (12/2001)
• An Uphill Climb to True Tolerance (08/2001)
• Which Way, Senator Lieberman? (07/2001)
• We're All "Faith-Based" Now (05/2001)
• The Discrimination Olympics (04/2001)
• Equal Treatment, YES; Discrimination and Demagoguery, NO (02/2001)
• Charitable Choice Behind Bars (02/2001)
• No Quotas for Religion (09/1999)
• What's an FBO? (08/1999)
• Goring the Separationists (06/1999)
• At the Center, Not the Margins (05/1999)
• Against the Decline (10/1998)
• Don't Unite with Americans United (02/1998)
• Fake Wall, Real Moat (12/1997)
• No Magic Bullet (09/1997)
• Losing by Default (10/1996)
• Filling In the Blanks (09/1996)
• Ending Poverty As We Know It (07/1996)
• Lamps Without Light (04/1996)
• Welfare Deform (01/1996)

China

• China Rising (05/2005)

Christian Political Thought

• What's Happened to Real Politics? (11/2009)
• The Religious Right Is Breaking Up (12/2007)
• An American Covenant With God? (12/2003)

Christian Worldview

• Religiously Political Conservatism (10/2004)

Church and State

• Fences and Walls (05/2006)

Citizenship

• Jesus Is Lord! (07/2008)

Civic Responsibility

• Civic Revival in the Face of Scarcity (12/2008)

Civil Rights

• Martin Luther King Day (01/2008)

Civil Society

• Notre Dame, Glendon, and Obama (05/2009)
• Snitch and Die (04/2006)
• Hardwired to Connect (01/2004)
• The Myth of Essential Privateness (11/2003)

Criminal Justice

• Vick and a Second Chance (09/2009)
• Healing Communities for Returning Citizens (10/2007)
• Prisoner Reentry (04/2007)

Democracy

• Two Cheers for Democracy (05/2009)

Diplomacy

• World Language, Mutual Understanding? (07/2008)

Economy

• Hunger and Justice (04/2009)
• Faith in the Face of Foreclosure? (03/2009)
• The Root of the Problem (09/2008)
• The Fannie-Freddie Bail Out (07/2008)
• Is the Economic Crisis a Moral Issue? (04/2008)
• Free Exchange Depends on Just Markets (09/2007)
• What Price this Union? (02/2003)

Education

• Intelligent Courts, Schools, and Science (12/2005)
• Educational Equity in Ontario (07/2004)
• Give Washington, D.C. Families a Choice and a Chance (09/2003)
• What's Unconstitutional About School Choice? (07/2002)
• A Supreme Victory for Religious Freedom (06/2002)
• Title IX and Quotas: A Modest First Step (02/2002)
• The Real Religious Establishment (10/2001)
• Time to Fix Bilingual Education (09/2001)
• Who Are The Conservatives Now? (01/2001)
• Public Schools, Prayer and Creatures of the State (07/2000)
• Evangelicals, Sex and Liberal Intolerance (05/2000)
• The Difficulty of Choosing Choice (12/1999)
• Civic Education's Crisis—and Opportunity (12/1999)
• Ten Commandment Politics (07/1999)
• Hungarian Rhapsody (12/1998)
• Yes, Wisconsin! (06/1998)
• Decriminalize School Choice (01/1998)
• Justice, Not Poverty, Requires Choice (09/1997)
• What's Right about Afrocentrism? (05/1997)
• Leading the Charge in All Directions (02/1997)
• What Do We Know About Schooling Language-Minority Children? (02/1997)
• Cleveland is Right (09/1996)

Election 2000

• Election 2000, the Legislature and the Rule of Law (12/2000)
• Give Thanks! (11/2000)
• Directions versus Issues (11/2000)
• Forget the Debates (10/2000)
• You Weren't Expecting Lincoln-Douglas, Were You? (10/2000)
• Is America God's Mediator to the Globe? (09/2000)
• More Religion, Please (08/2000)
• The Race to Consolidate the Moral Majority (08/2000)
• The Race to the Bottom (03/2000)
• Off and Running for President: Good News and Bad (06/1999)
• Campaign Messages (01/1999)

Election 2004

• The Second Bush Inauguration (01/2005)
• Moral Issues, Divided Society, and the Elections (11/2004)
• Partisan Religion? (10/2004)
• Bush's Deeds, Kerry's Words (09/2004)
• Reagan—Bush 2004? (06/2004)
• Kerry and the Church (05/2004)
• Postponing the Kerry Coronation (02/2004)

Election 2006

• What Now? (11/2006)

Election 2008

• Blank Check for Big Government? (01/2009)
• Inauguration by Fire (01/2009)
• Managing or Exceeding Expectations (11/2008)
• The Obama Victory (11/2008)
• Avoid Left-Behind Politics (05/2008)
• More Political Morality, Please! (04/2008)
• Why the Well Qualified Should Rule the World (03/2008)
• Presidential Primary Paradoxes (02/2008)
• Are Presidential Candidates Fit for Office? (11/2007)
• Obama for President? (01/2007)

Electoral Reform

• The Redistricting Game: Parties 2, Citizens 0 (11/2005)
• Help California Vote! (08/2003)
• Jeffords' Defection: The Tip of an Iceberg (06/2001)
• America Needs More Than a Third Party (08/1996)

Energy/Environment

• A Matter of Environmental Responsibility (02/2009)
• O Give Me a Plain, Where the Caribou Roam... (09/2000)
• The Environment of the Commonwealth (10/1996)
• Expensive Gas, Cheap Leadership (05/1996)

Entitlement

• Entitlement (12/2008)

Environment

• Why Global Climate Change is Different (08/2007)
• Christians and Climate Change (02/2006)
• Doing Justice to Environmental Complexity (08/2004)

Equal treatment for religious organizations

• A Silver Lining in the Clouded "Silver Ring Thing" Case (03/2006)
• The State of the Faith-Based Initiative (02/2006)
• A Supreme Challenge for John Roberts (07/2005)

European Union

• The European Union at 50 (04/2007)

Foreign Policy

• Dealing With Iran's Nuclear Program (11/2009)
• The Fallacy of Nation Building (09/2009)
• This is Not the Time to Cut Foreign Aid (10/2008)
• Georgia: The Larger Issues (08/2008)
• Arguing About a War In Question (11/2005)
• Light at the End of the Tunnel (10/2005)
• The Democracy Dilemma (03/2005)
• Two Crises, Two Failures (08/2004)
• Why Afghanistan Should Concern Us (06/2004)
• Foreign Aid That Really Works (05/2004)
• Our Last Pre-emptive War? (03/2004)
• A European View of President Bush (11/2003)
• Zimbabwe's Mess and the U.S. Response (07/2003)
• Lessons From Iraq (06/2003)
• Democracy Through Creative Destruction? (05/2003)
• An Iraqi Democracy Should Be A Pluralist Democracy (05/2003)
• After the War (03/2003)
• Now, Only Preemption is Containment (03/2003)
• The Rush to War (02/2003)
• Grasping for the Past in Europe? (11/2002)
• Imperialist Blinders? (08/2002)
• O'Neill on Safari with Bono (06/2002)
• Chinese Wake-Up Call (04/2001)
• Strategy and Justice in Kosovo (04/1999)
• Just or Unjust War? (04/1999)
• Kosovo and American Power (02/1999)
• Taking Slavery Seriously (02/1999)
• What's Wrong with Terrorism, Anyway? (09/1998)
• This Year's Biggest Scandal (08/1998)
• Chinese Theater (07/1998)
• The Carcass of Dead Politics (05/1998)
• Food, Farming, and Foreign Policy (04/1998)
• America's Debt to Africa (04/1998)
• Seeds of Change (02/1998)
• An Uncertain Superpower (11/1997)
• Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki (08/1997)
• What Does Serious Christian Advocacy Require? (07/1997)
• The Pope and the Dictator (12/1996)
• Are There Two Chinas Now? (03/1996)

Gambling

• Gambling for Tax Revenues (01/2003)

Gender

• A Woman's Place—in Government (10/2009)
• Girl or Boy: You Choose (01/2005)

Global Community

• Trade, Energy, and the Rebalancing of Global Power (07/2006)
• The Growing Instability of International Politics (10/2002)

Government

• Obama the King (02/2010)

Gun Control

• The Rights Paradox on Guns and More (08/2008)
• Stop Gun Violence! (10/2006)

Health Care

• Health Care Choices and the Common Good (03/2010)
• The Impractical Pragmatism of Healthcare Reform (10/2009)
• Missing Balance in Healthcare Reform (08/2009)
• For a Passing Grade, Healthcare Reform Needs More Cs (07/2009)
• Health Care With Dignity (04/2009)
• Health Care for a Healthy Polity (06/2006)

Homosexuality

• A Shield, not a Sword (05/1996)

Human Rights

• Torture (05/2007)

Immigration

• Immigration Reform and Our Southern Neighbors (06/2007)
• Congress Must Not Duck Immigration Reform (08/2006)
• Immigrant Justice (05/2006)

Income and Equality

• What’s Better about Being More Equal? (08/2009)

Iraq War

• Our Destructive Delusion About Iraq (07/2007)
• A Long, Tough Road (02/2007)
• Confusion on Iraq (10/2006)
• Last Gasp? (04/2006)
• Think Beyond Iraq (01/2006)

Korea

• Korea: South and North (06/2003)

Labor/Employment

• Labor Value (09/2005)
• The State of the Labor Unions (06/2005)

Latin America

• Latin American Evangelicals: In a League of their Own (06/2008)

Leadership

• Party Leadership and the Fate of Healthcare (07/2009)

Manhattan Declaration

• The (Unfinished) Manhattan Declaration (12/2009)

Marriage/Family

• Investing in Fatherhood and Family-Strengthening Pays Off (01/2010)
• Investing in Fatherhood and Family-Strengthening Pays Off (01/2010)
• Investing in Fatherhood and Family-Strengthening Pays Off (01/2010)
• Marriage and Homosexual Rights (10/2003)
• Vermont, Public Justice, and Marriage (01/2000)
• Parents Rights (01/2000)
• Sex, Race and Marriage Law (11/1998)
• Public Justice and the Mommy Wars (03/1998)
• The Promise of Promise Keepers (10/1997)
• The End of Pluralism? (12/1996)
• Just Kidding (06/1996)

Middle East

• Israel and Palestine: Why Is This Issue So Difficult? (03/2008)
• The Annapolis Conference (11/2007)
• Why Save Arafat? (05/2004)
• Road Map to Middle East Peace (04/2003)
• O Broken Town of Bethlehem (12/2002)
• Seeing Two Sides in the Land of Promise (04/2002)
• They're not Martyrs, They're Murderers (04/2002)
• Breaking the Cycle of Middle East Violence (03/2002)

Morality

• Columbine High, Clinton, and Kosovo (05/1999)
• Stand Up for Something (01/1999)

National Missile Defense

• Prudence on National Missile Defense (11/2001)

New Year's Challenges

• Continuity and Discontinuity in the New Year (01/2010)

Non-Profit Organizations

• The Charity Sector Isn't Full of Enrons! (04/2005)

Pluralism

• Fear and Faith Factors (04/2005)
• Iraqi Elections: Way Ahead of Us? (02/2005)
• Tanks at the Manger? (12/2001)
• Majority No Longer Moral? (03/1999)

Politics/Government

• State of the Union (01/2010)
• The Kabuki Dance (06/2009)
• “New Politics” Still Just a Promise (03/2009)
• Vote for Change, Get a Troop Surge (02/2007)
• Evangelicals and the Muscular Middle (12/2006)
• All Politics is Global (09/2006)
• Many a Slip from Party Philosophy to Governing Policy (08/2006)
• Prophetic Politics Goes to Washington? (03/2006)
• Filibuster War (05/2005)
• The State of the Union (02/2005)
• Laissez-Faire is Not Enough (10/2003)
• From Legal Judgment to Political Approbation (07/2003)
• The Republicans' Rare Opportunity (12/2002)
• Breaking a Party Mold (10/2002)
• The State of the Union (01/2002)
• Party Loyalty: Why Expect It? (07/2001)
• Y2K Politics (01/2000)
• Congressional Contradictions (10/1999)
• Gen X Politics (09/1999)
• Confessions of the Master of Spin (03/1999)
• Pollution (11/1998)
• Impeachment is Office Politics (10/1998)
• The Abdication of Authority (09/1998)
• Out of Focus (08/1998)
• Lawmaking and the Supreme Court (03/1998)
• Christians in Coalition (05/1997)
• Skip the Balanced Budget Amendment (03/1997)
• Of Oaths and Offices (01/1997)
• Abandoning Public Service? (01/1997)
• Divided We Stand (11/1996)
• Will the Real Democratic Party Please Stand Up (09/1996)
• Advantage Dole? (06/1996)
• AWOL (03/1996)
• Who Is Pat Buchanan? (03/1996)
• So What If Hillary Is Guilty? (02/1996)
• What Ever Happened to Public Trust? (02/1996)
• Senator Coats, Meet Glenn Loury (01/1996)

Public Moral Discourse

• Politically Correct Prayer (01/2009)

Race Relations

• Race and Politics: A New Year's Challenge (12/2000)
• Mending the Breach (12/2000)
• Racial Justice (06/1997)

Religion/Secularization

• Religion in the Classroom (02/2010)
• A Tale of Two Textbooks (05/2006)
• Will John Roberts Judge Faithfully? (08/2005)
• Religion and Politics Beyond the Party Lines (12/2003)

Religious Liberty

• Obama, Cairo, and Religious Freedom (06/2009)
• Is the Common Good Rainbow-Striped? (09/2008)
• School Prayer—Again (05/2008)
• Advancing Religious Freedom Against the Tide (01/2008)
• The Proselytism "Problem" (09/2007)
• Good Cops, Bad Cops and Religious Freedom (06/2007)
• Stop Trying to Fence in Our Faith (06/2007)
• Religious Freedom and the Ninth Amendment (09/2006)
• Interfaith or Multi-faith? (06/2006)
• Religious Staffing-2, Opponents-0 (10/2005)
• First Amendment Amnesia (09/2005)
• Regress, not Progress, in Georgia (11/2003)
• Religious Liberty and the Zealot State (08/1998)
• School Prayer Isn't the Solution (06/1998)
• Time to Amend the Constitution (07/1997)
• Equality or Establishment? (03/1997)

Social Security

• "Ownership Society" Misconceived (12/2004)
• Test the Candidates on Social Security (07/2004)
• Fueling Retirement Security (05/2000)

Terrorism

• Rule of Law Succumbs to Torture for Safety (06/2008)
• Terrorism is Not the Enemy (09/2004)
• U.S. Defense: A Question of Perspective (03/2002)
• Exposing the Roots of Hatred (12/2001)
• Beyond the Military Campaign (11/2001)
• Seamless Silliness (10/2001)
• The Ignominious Pretension of Falwell/Robertson (09/2001)

The Faith-Based Initiative

• Faith-Based Initiative, Version 3.0 (02/2009)
• Which Candidate Will Go First? (01/2008)
• An Uncertain Victory for the Faith-Based Initiative (07/2007)
• The Faith-Based Initiative After 2008 (03/2007)
• Don't Backslide on the Faith-Based Initiative (01/2007)
• Matters of Faith . . . and Prison (12/2004)