Capital Commentary - by Author

Alaine Gherardi

A Ban in Favor of Life (06/2002)
A Betrayal of Faith (02/2002)

Alice-Catherine Carls

Snitch and Die (04/2006)

Brenda Kay Zylstra

Pro-Life Rally—35 Years (02/2008)

Charles Glenn

Time to Fix Bilingual Education (09/2001)

Christen Yates

Party-ing in the Middle (02/2000)

David Coolidge

The End of Pluralism? (12/1996)

David Koyzis

Dean Trulear

Martin Luther King Day (01/2008)
Healing Communities for Returning Citizens (10/2007)
Prisoner Reentry (04/2007)
Stop Gun Violence! (10/2006)
Snitch and Die (04/2006)

Dennis R. Hoover

Latin American Evangelicals: In a League of their Own (06/2008)
The Proselytism "Problem" (09/2007)
Good Cops, Bad Cops and Religious Freedom (06/2007)
Evangelicals and the Muscular Middle (12/2006)

Donald Kruse

Road Map to Middle East Peace (04/2003)
Seeing Two Sides in the Land of Promise (04/2002)

Henry Suhr

Land Preservation and the Common Good (07/1998)

Jack Boeve

Jeffords' Defection: The Tip of an Iceberg (06/2001)
Charitable Choice Behind Bars (02/2001)

James Skillen

Rule of Law Succumbs to Torture for Safety (06/2008)
Is the Economic Crisis a Moral Issue? (04/2008)
Food, Fuel, and Farming (01/2008)
The Annapolis Conference (11/2007)
Free Exchange Depends on Just Markets (09/2007)
Our Destructive Delusion About Iraq (07/2007)
Torture (05/2007)
The European Union at 50 (04/2007)
Obama for President? (01/2007)
Confusion on Iraq (10/2006)
All Politics is Global (09/2006)
Trade, Energy, and the Rebalancing of Global Power (07/2006)
Immigrant Justice (05/2006)
Intelligent Courts, Schools, and Science (12/2005)
Arguing About a War In Question (11/2005)
A Good Tax-Reform Proposal (10/2005)
Labor Value (09/2005)
Africa and the G-8 Summit (07/2005)
Filibuster War (05/2005)
The State of the Union (02/2005)
"Ownership Society" Misconceived (12/2004)
Religiously Political Conservatism (10/2004)
Test the Candidates on Social Security (07/2004)
Why Afghanistan Should Concern Us (06/2004)
Why Save Arafat? (05/2004)
Iowa and New Hampshire and... (01/2004)
An American Covenant With God? (12/2003)
Marriage and Homosexual Rights (10/2003)
Laissez-Faire is Not Enough (10/2003)
From Legal Judgment to Political Approbation (07/2003)
Democracy Through Creative Destruction? (05/2003)
What Price this Union? (02/2003)
Gambling for Tax Revenues (01/2003)
The Republicans' Rare Opportunity (12/2002)
The Growing Instability of International Politics (10/2002)
Breaking a Party Mold (10/2002)
Earth to Summit: It's Government, Stupid! (09/2002)
U.S. Shortsightedness on the ICC (07/2002)
O'Neill on Safari with Bono (06/2002)
Veto the Farm Bill! (05/2002)
U.S. Defense: A Question of Perspective (03/2002)
The State of the Union (01/2002)
Tanks at the Manger? (12/2001)
Beyond the Military Campaign (11/2001)
The Ignominious Pretension of Falwell/Robertson (09/2001)
Retarget the Farm Subsidies (08/2001)
The Poverty of Public Moral Discourse (06/2001)
Chinese Wake-Up Call (04/2001)
Financing Elections (03/2001)
Who Are The Conservatives Now? (01/2001)
Tax Cuts and Savings Rates (01/2001)
Give Thanks! (11/2000)
Forget the Debates (10/2000)
Is America God's Mediator to the Globe? (09/2000)
The Race to Consolidate the Moral Majority (08/2000)
Rudderless Politics (06/2000)
Social Security and the Poor (06/2000)
Fueling Retirement Security (05/2000)
Catholic House Chaplain: What's the Problem? (03/2000)
Parents Rights (01/2000)
Progress (of all kinds) Through Economic Growth? (11/1999)
Congressional Contradictions (10/1999)
Abortion Up, Crime Down? (08/1999)
What's an FBO? (08/1999)
Off and Running for President: Good News and Bad (06/1999)
Just or Unjust War? (04/1999)
Majority No Longer Moral? (03/1999)
Campaign Messages (01/1999)
Pollution (11/1998)
The Abdication of Authority (09/1998)
Out of Focus (08/1998)
Yes, Wisconsin! (06/1998)
Food, Farming, and Foreign Policy (04/1998)
America's Debt to Africa (04/1998)
Lawmaking and the Supreme Court (03/1998)
Don't Unite with Americans United (02/1998)
Justice and Forgiveness (12/1997)
An Uncertain Superpower (11/1997)
Justice, Not Poverty, Requires Choice (08/1997)
What Does Serious Christian Advocacy Require? (07/1997)
Racial Justice (06/1997)
What's Right about Afrocentrism? (05/1997)
Christians in Coalition (05/1997)
Suicide (04/1997)
Just Say No To Human Cloning (03/1997)
Skip the Balanced Budget Amendment (03/1997)
Of Oaths and Offices (01/1997)
Immigration Dilemmas (11/1996)
The Environment of the Commonwealth (10/1996)
Cleveland is Right (09/1996)
America Needs More Than a Third Party (08/1996)
Advantage Dole? (06/1996)
Expensive Gas, Cheap Leadership (05/1996)
Are There Two Chinas Now? (03/1996)
So What If Hillary Is Guilty? (02/1996)
Senator Coats, Meet Glenn Loury (01/1996)

James Skillen; James Ohlson

Religiously Political Conservatism (10/2004)
Test the Candidates on Social Security (07/2004)
Why Afghanistan Should Concern Us (06/2004)
Why Save Arafat? (05/2004)
Iowa and New Hampshire and... (01/2004)
An American Covenant With God? (12/2003)
Marriage and Homosexual Rights (10/2003)
Laissez-Faire is Not Enough (10/2003)
From Legal Judgment to Political Approbation (07/2003)
Democracy Through Creative Destruction? (05/2003)
What Price this Union? (02/2003)
Gambling for Tax Revenues (01/2003)
The Republicans' Rare Opportunity (12/2002)
The Growing Instability of International Politics (10/2002)
Breaking a Party Mold (10/2002)
Earth to Summit: It's Government, Stupid! (09/2002)
U.S. Shortsightedness on the ICC (07/2002)
O'Neill on Safari with Bono (06/2002)
Veto the Farm Bill! (05/2002)
U.S. Defense: A Question of Perspective (03/2002)
The State of the Union (01/2002)
Tanks at the Manger? (12/2001)
Beyond the Military Campaign (11/2001)
The Ignominious Pretension of Falwell/Robertson (09/2001)
Retarget the Farm Subsidies (08/2001)
The Poverty of Public Moral Discourse (06/2001)
Chinese Wake-Up Call (04/2001)
Financing Elections (03/2001)
Who Are The Conservatives Now? (01/2001)
Tax Cuts and Savings Rates (01/2001)
Give Thanks! (11/2000)
Forget the Debates (10/2000)
Is America God's Mediator to the Globe? (09/2000)
The Race to Consolidate the Moral Majority (08/2000)
Rudderless Politics (06/2000)
Social Security and the Poor (06/2000)
Fueling Retirement Security (05/2000)
Catholic House Chaplain: What's the Problem? (03/2000)
Parents Rights (01/2000)
Progress (of all kinds) Through Economic Growth? (11/1999)
Congressional Contradictions (10/1999)
Abortion Up, Crime Down? (08/1999)
What's an FBO? (08/1999)
Off and Running for President: Good News and Bad (06/1999)
Just or Unjust War? (04/1999)
Majority No Longer Moral? (03/1999)
Campaign Messages (01/1999)
Pollution (11/1998)
The Abdication of Authority (09/1998)
Out of Focus (08/1998)
Yes, Wisconsin! (06/1998)
Food, Farming, and Foreign Policy (04/1998)
America's Debt to Africa (04/1998)
Lawmaking and the Supreme Court (03/1998)
Don't Unite with Americans United (02/1998)
Justice and Forgiveness (12/1997)
An Uncertain Superpower (11/1997)
Justice, Not Poverty, Requires Choice (08/1997)
What Does Serious Christian Advocacy Require? (07/1997)
Racial Justice (06/1997)
What's Right about Afrocentrism? (05/1997)
Christians in Coalition (05/1997)
Suicide (04/1997)
Just Say No To Human Cloning (03/1997)
Skip the Balanced Budget Amendment (03/1997)
Of Oaths and Offices (01/1997)
Immigration Dilemmas (11/1996)
The Environment of the Commonwealth (10/1996)
Cleveland is Right (09/1996)
America Needs More Than a Third Party (08/1996)
Advantage Dole? (06/1996)
Expensive Gas, Cheap Leadership (05/1996)
Are There Two Chinas Now? (03/1996)
So What If Hillary Is Guilty? (02/1996)
Senator Coats, Meet Glenn Loury (01/1996)

James Skillen; Stanley Carlson-Thies; Stephen Monsma; Karen Hosler Kispert

Religious Staffing-2, Opponents-0 (10/2005)
A Supreme Challenge for John Roberts (07/2005)
Partisan Religion? (10/2004)
AWOL Again on the Faith-Based Initiative (04/2004)
Shrinking Religious Liberty (02/2004)
Religion and Politics Beyond the Party Lines (12/2003)
We Won't Tolerate a Faith-Based Bait and Switch! (09/2003)
Pass CARE, Just Don't Stop There! (04/2003)
Go for the Substance, Not the Sizzle (12/2002)
Mugging Civil Rights (10/2002)
Why We Should Care about CARE (08/2002)
Directions versus Issues (11/2000)
More Religion, Please (08/2000)
Y2K Politics (01/2000)
No Quotas for Religion (09/1999)
At the Center, Not the Margins (05/1999)
Stand Up for Something (01/1999)
Against the Decline (10/1998)
School Prayer Isn't the Solution (06/1998)
A Boy Scout Will be Brave, Reverent...and Tolerant? (03/1998)
Decriminalize School Choice (01/1998)
Fake Wall, Real Moat (12/1997)
A Colorblind Society (11/1997)
No Magic Bullet (09/1997)
Lurching Ahead (08/1997)
Time to Amend the Constitution (07/1997)
A Global Army (06/1997)
Don't Just Volunteer! (04/1997)
Equality or Establishment? (03/1997)
Leading the Charge in All Directions (02/1997)
Abandoning Public Service? (01/1997)
Losing by Default (10/1996)
Filling In the Blanks (09/1996)
Ending Poverty As We Know It (07/1996)
Just Kidding (06/1996)
Lamps Without Light (04/1996)
AWOL (03/1996)
Welfare Deform (01/1996)

Jerry Herbert

Private Affair or Public Business? (05/1998)

Josh Good

Matters of Faith . . . and Prison (12/2004)

Keith Pavlischek

Girl or Boy: You Choose (01/2005)
Kerry and the Church (05/2004)
Now, Only Preemption is Containment (03/2003)
They're not Martyrs, They're Murderers (04/2002)
Title IX and Quotas: A Modest First Step (02/2002)
Exposing the Roots of Hatred (12/2001)
Seamless Silliness (10/2001)
Which Way, Senator Lieberman? (07/2001)
Capital Punishment, Justice, and Timothy McVeigh (05/2001)
Equal Treatment, YES; Discrimination and Demagoguery, NO (02/2001)
Race and Politics: A New Year's Challenge (12/2000)
Election 2000, the Legislature and the Rule of Law (12/2000)
You Weren't Expecting Lincoln-Douglas, Were You? (10/2000)
Evangelicals, Sex and Liberal Intolerance (05/2000)
Elian Versus Castro's Family Values (04/2000)
The Race to the Bottom (03/2000)
The Difficulty of Choosing Choice (12/1999)
Homophobia: Excuse or Cause? (11/1999)
DOSA, Anyone? (08/1999)
Goring the Separationists (06/1999)
Strategy and Justice in Kosovo (04/1999)
Kosovo and American Power (02/1999)
Paternal Responsibilities And Abortion Logic (12/1998)
Sex, Race and Marriage Law (11/1998)
What's Wrong with Terrorism, Anyway? (09/1998)
This Year's Biggest Scandal (08/1998)

Luis Lugo

Divided We Stand (11/1996)
Will the Real Democratic Party Please Stand Up (09/1996)
Gambling With Our Future (08/1996)
Back to the Old Drawing Board (07/1996)
A Shield, not a Sword (05/1996)
Inches from Infanticide (04/1996)
Who Is Pat Buchanan? (03/1996)
What Ever Happened to Public Trust? (02/1996)

Lynn Robinson

Prudence on National Missile Defense (11/2001)

Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen

God Must Have a Very Large Funny Bone! (05/2005)
Body, Soul, and Stem Cells (11/2004)

Michelle Kirtley

A Surprise Consensus on Stem Cells? (02/2008)
Biotechnology and Human Identity (09/2007)
Genetic Bipartisanship in Congress! (03/2007)
Stem Cell Veto (07/2006)
Stem Cell Grail (01/2006)

Michelle Voll

A Pain in the Neck: Who is Responsible? (03/2001)
War Over Drugs (07/2000)
Chinese Theater (07/1998)
Seeds of Change (02/1998)

Mitri Raheb

O Broken Town of Bethlehem (12/2002)

Paul Brink

Jesus is Lord! (07/2008)
More Political Morality, Please! (04/2008)

Roy Clouser

Nukes and National Prestige (12/2006)
Taking Aim at Gun Control (07/1999)
Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki (08/1997)

Ruth Melkonian

Why the Well Qualified Should Rule the World (03/2008)
Immigration Reform and Our Southern Neighbors (06/2007)
Congress Must Not Duck Immigration Reform (08/2006)

Stanley Carlson-Thies

Avoid Left-Behind Politics (05/2008)
Which Candidate Will Go First? (01/2008)
Advancing Religious Freedom Against the Tide (01/2008)
Stop Trying to Fence in Our Faith (06/2007)
Don't Backslide on the Faith-Based Initiative (01/2007)
Interfaith or Multi-faith? (06/2006)
A Silver Lining in the Clouded "Silver Ring Thing" Case (03/2006)
Think Beyond Iraq (01/2006)
Religious Staffing-2, Opponents-0 (10/2005)
A Supreme Challenge for John Roberts (07/2005)
Partisan Religion? (10/2004)
AWOL Again on the Faith-Based Initiative (04/2004)
Shrinking Religious Liberty (02/2004)
Religion and Politics Beyond the Party Lines (12/2003)
We Won't Tolerate a Faith-Based Bait and Switch! (09/2003)
Pass CARE, Just Don't Stop There! (04/2003)
Go for the Substance, Not the Sizzle (12/2002)
Mugging Civil Rights (10/2002)
Why We Should Care about CARE (08/2002)
Directions versus Issues (11/2000)
More Religion, Please (08/2000)
Y2K Politics (01/2000)
No Quotas for Religion (09/1999)
At the Center, Not the Margins (05/1999)
Follow Joseph, Not Hobbes (02/1999)
Stand Up for Something (01/1999)
Against the Decline (10/1998)
School Prayer Isn't the Solution (06/1998)
A Boy Scout Will be Brave, Reverent...and Tolerant? (03/1998)
Decriminalize School Choice (01/1998)
Fake Wall, Real Moat (12/1997)
A Colorblind Society (11/1997)
No Magic Bullet (09/1997)
Lurching Ahead (08/1997)
Time to Amend the Constitution (07/1997)
A Global Army (06/1997)
Don't Just Volunteer! (04/1997)
Equality or Establishment? (03/1997)
Leading the Charge in All Directions (02/1997)
Abandoning Public Service? (01/1997)
Losing by Default (10/1996)
Filling In the Blanks (09/1996)
Ending Poverty As We Know It (07/1996)
Just Kidding (06/1996)
Lamps Without Light (04/1996)
AWOL (03/1996)
Welfare Deform (01/1996)

Stephen Lazarus

The Faith-Based Initiative After 2008 (03/2007)
A Tale of Two Textbooks (05/2006)
First Amendment Amnesia (09/2005)
Listening to the Sudanese Church in Exile (06/2005)
The Everlasting Faith-Based Initiative (10/2004)
Foreign Aid That Really Works (05/2004)
Hardwired to Connect (01/2004)
Regress, not Progress, in Georgia (11/2003)
Give Washington, D.C. Families a Choice and a Chance (09/2003)
Faith-Based Football (06/2003)
The Real Face of the Faith-Based Initiative (01/2003)
What's Unconstitutional About School Choice? (07/2002)
A Supreme Victory for Religious Freedom (06/2002)
Re-Igniting the Faith-Based Initiative (05/2002)
Charitable Choice in the Courts: Round One (01/2002)
A Faith-Based Christmas Package (12/2001)
The Real Religious Establishment (10/2001)
An Uphill Climb to True Tolerance (08/2001)
We're All "Faith-Based" Now (05/2001)
The Discrimination Olympics (04/2001)
Mending the Breach (12/2000)
Let Baptists be Baptists (04/2000)
Gen X Politics (09/1999)
Ten Commandment Politics (07/1999)
Columbine High, Clinton, and Kosovo (05/1999)
Confessions of the Master of Spin (03/1999)
Taking Slavery Seriously (01/1999)
Impeachment is Office Politics (10/1998)
Religious Liberty and the Zealot State (08/1998)

Stephen Monsma

School Prayer—Again (05/2008)
Equal Treatment Lessons from Abroad (04/2004)
A European View of President Bush (11/2003)
After the War (03/2003)
Whose Social Services Are They? (09/2002)
Capital Punishment: For the Exceptional Case (01/1998)

Stephen V. Monsma

The Religious Right Is Breaking Up (12/2007)
The Supreme Court and Partial-Birth Abortion (04/2007)
What Now? (11/2006)
Fences and Walls (05/2006)
Will John Roberts Judge Faithfully? (08/2005)
The Second Bush Inauguration (01/2005)

Steven E. Meyer

Israel and Palestine: Why Is This Issue So Difficult? (03/2008)
A Long, Tough Road (02/2007)
After the Neo-Cons (12/2006)
Christians and Climate Change (02/2006)
Iraq, Intelligence, and Policy (12/2005)
Light at the End of the Tunnel (10/2005)

Steven Meyer

Why Global Climate Change is Different (08/2007)
Last Gasp? (04/2006)
China Rising (05/2005)
Two Crises, Two Failures (08/2004)
Our Last Pre-emptive War? (03/2004)
Lessons From Iraq (06/2003)
The Rush to War (02/2003)
Grasping for the Past in Europe? (11/2002)
Imperialist Blinders? (08/2002)
Breaking the Cycle of Middle East Violence (03/2002)

Tim Sherratt

Presidential Primary Paradoxes (02/2008)
Are Presidential Candidates Fit for Office? (11/2007)
Health Care for a Healthy Polity (06/2006)
The State of the Labor Unions (06/2005)

Timothy Sherratt

An Uncertain Victory for the Faith-Based Initiative (07/2007)
Vote for Change, Get a Troop Surge (02/2007)
Many a Slip from Party Philosophy to Governing Policy (08/2006)
Prophetic Politics Goes to Washington? (03/2006)
The Redistricting Game: Parties 2, Citizens 0 (11/2005)
Iraqi Elections: Way Ahead of Us? (02/2005)
Moral Issues, Divided Society, and the Elections (11/2004)
Doing Justice to Environmental Complexity (08/2004)
Reagan—Bush 2004? (06/2004)
Postponing the Kerry Coronation (02/2004)
The Myth of Essential Privateness (11/2003)
Help California Vote! (08/2003)
An Iraqi Democracy Should Be A Pluralist Democracy (05/2003)

Timothy Stoen

Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died (10/2007)

Tracy Kuperus

Zimbabwe's Mess and the U.S. Response (07/2003)

William Harper; Timothy Sherratt

The Redistricting Game: Parties 2, Citizens 0 (11/2005)
Iraqi Elections: Way Ahead of Us? (02/2005)
Moral Issues, Divided Society, and the Elections (11/2004)
Doing Justice to Environmental Complexity (08/2004)
Reagan—Bush 2004? (06/2004)
Postponing the Kerry Coronation (02/2004)
The Myth of Essential Privateness (11/2003)
An Iraqi Democracy Should Be A Pluralist Democracy (05/2003)

William Zimmerman

Party Loyalty: Why Expect It? (07/2001)