American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Death of Eros
Something strange is going on in America’s bedrooms. In a recent issue of Archives of Sexual Behavior,…
And the Petulance Prize Goes To . . .
It’s hard to decide who’s winning the Petulance Prize right now: Fr. James Martin, S.J., author of…
Euthanasia for Alzheimer’s Patients?
The medically vulnerable have rarely been in greater jeopardy. Alzheimer’s disease patients are at particular risk. In…
Pornography Is Worse than Feminism
I understand what Ben Domenech is trying to say in his eulogy for Hugh Hefner, but I’m…
The GOP Bubble
David Brooks thinks that Sam Francis was the prophet of modern right-wing populism. My sense is that…
This Sporting Life
Amid the hoo-hah surrounding the clash between Donald Trump and the NFL, perhaps the most important question…
Ban the Laptops, Yes
A study just appeared in Education Next, under the title “Should Professors Ban Laptops?” The study worked like this:…
The Transmigration of Theological Nonsense
During the Long Lent of 2002, Sister Betsy Conway, who lived in the Bostonian epicenter of the…
The Lost Purpose of Learning
In the autumn of AD 386, a thirty-two-year-old academic superstar named Aurelius Augustinus made a radical move:…
Euthanasia and the Belgian Brothers of Charity
Over a decade before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel of New Orleans formally moved to…
Searching for Ted Kaczynski
I’ve often dreamed of retiring to a cabin in the Rockies with several million dollars and a…
Prepping for an Amish Apocalypse
A fairly popular contemporary view of the apocalypse envisions it as a sudden and complete shutdown of…
What They Knew Without Seeing
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? Or, to put it more contemporarily, what has Shakespeare’s formation…
Christianity and the Thucydides Trap
China’s economic growth has been so preposterously huge and fast that statistics sound like a riff from…
Civility and Church Life
As I write these words I’m looking at an untitled cartoon from the National Catholic Reporter in…
