The Summer 2011 issue of The City has been posted in full via Issuu, and is now available below. A list of contents follows – we hope you enjoy it.
Ryan Anderson
An article from a conservative perspective in our Winter 2008 issue this morning, from Ryan T. Anderson. We shall pair it on Monday with one of our articles from an evangelical Democrat in the same issue.
There are, of course, many things that conservatives generally and the Republican Party specifically must do to recover after the losses of 2008. Given space and time limitations, I’ll focus on just one. Or really, just one that they shouldn’t do—and then propose the alternative.
Immediately following the general election of 2008, moderate Republicans and liberal pundits who seemed oh so eager to help the GOP recover argued that the solution was for the party to kick social conservatives—described by one as “social fundamentalists”—to the curb. John McCain’s defeat—even though it came in the wake of a campaign that was the least engaged in the culture-wars of any modern race for the presidency or any leadership position within the party, led by a candidate who rarely, if ever, drew attention to the gaping chasm separating himself from Barack Obama—was somehow to blame on the hicks in flyover country, the pro-lifers and marriage advocates.
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If you have not already received it, you will soon find in your mailbox the latest issue of The City for Winter 2008. It features many interesting articles, focusing in large part on American politics and the recent historic presidential election. There are also some excellent pieces on what it means to be a young evangelical, and the undercurrent of faith in the works of Cormac McCarthy.
The contents are as follows – we’ll be posting some of these here over the coming weeks:
where do we go from here: a forum
Joseph Knippenberg + David Blankenhorn
Francis Cianfrocca + Susan McWilliams
Peter Lawler + Ryan T. Anderson
Frederica Matthewes-Green
on faith
The New Evangelical Scandal + Matthew Lee Anderson
The Muslim Other + Louis Markos
God’s Love & Life’s Storms + Tony Woodlief
on books
Faith, Fear & Cormac McCarthy : Christopher Badeaux
Grand New Party? : Jon D. Schaff
Schama’s America : Joshua Trevino
The Poetry of Salvation : Micah Mattix
With two poems by the award-winning Catherine Tufariello and the Word Spoken by John Witherspoon.
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