American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Obergefell and the Right to Other People’s Children
We’re mournfully familiar with the constitutional right of mothers to be rid of their own prenatal children.…
Mashallah: What God Wants, Happens
The great oracle of English conservatism, Charles Moore, once pronounced Slumdog Millionaire the Islamic breakthrough movie, in…
Predigested Obsolescence
In 1960, John Steinbeck drove across America in a pickup truck, accompanied by his dog, Charley. The…
Camille Paglia’s Teaching
Camille Paglia is an idiosyncratic mix of liberal and conservative convictions—or perhaps we should say that she,…
Can These Bones Live?
The following sermon was preached at the funeral of Robert W. Jenson on Saturday, September 16, at…
St. Rich, Pray for Us
Over the course of the next several weeks, we will continue to hear plenty about the Protestant…
Justice for Jahi
In California, Jahi McMath is legally dead. In New Jersey, she is legally alive. Now, the deceased—or…
Democrats, Republicans, and Homeless Voters
There are some voters politicians don’t understand, and there are some voters politicians don’t want. In a…
Speaker Ryan Invites a Social Doctrine Conversation
CNN is not the customary locale-of-choice for a catechesis on Catholic social doctrine. But that’s what Paul…
To My Daughter, Turning Ten
Beacon’s Riverfront Park looks different today, as if we’d been away for years, though it has only…
Twin Peaks Revisited
In the fall of 1946, Mary McCarthy wrote a letter objecting to a New Yorker essay by…
Abraham Lincoln, Matchmaker
What if Abraham Lincoln had sent a young socialite to meet an injured soldier, without telling her…
Civility, Consensus, Constructivism
Incivility, President Obama told his audience at the 2010 National Prayer Breakfast, is a disease of public…
From Hippo to Nashville
In lectures over the last couple of years, I have frequently mentioned Philip Rieff’s Psychological Man as…
Superheroes? Stardust? Or Vessels of the Incarnation?
When I was first introduced to the fascinations of the DNA double-helix in a biology class at…
