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In the eighteenth century, a host of thinkers began to use the compound term “political economy” to refer to the traditional subject matter of politics. Both parts are needed...

The tension between American democracy, capitalism, and culture is acute—more acute, perhaps, than at any time in our history. Even the best human fruits of this nation’s founding principles...

A newly married layman and graduate student, I found myself in Rome in 1963 covering the second session of the Second Vatican Council, working as a freelance reporter for...

Richard John Neuhaus first came into my life at a seminar run by the Carnegie Council on Religion and International Affairs in about 1963, when I was a green...

Until 1989, the most underreported fact of the twentieth century was the death of socialism. Socialism as an economic idea had died, in fact, long before the collapse of...

The Faiths of the Founding Fathers by David L. Holmes. Oxford University Press, 240 pages, $20. American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation by...

In the very first year of his papacy, Pope John Paul II planted a time bomb in the Church that is not likely to go off until about twenty...

Beginning in the thirteenth century, the three monotheistic religions parted ways, with the Jewish and Christian world going in one direction and the Islamic world going in another. We...

Last year marked the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Hayek, among whose many contributions to the twentieth century was a sustained and animated put-down of most...

From the beginning of his papacy in 1939 until well after his death in 1958, Pope Pius XII was honored with unfeigned warmth by Jewish leaders around the world....