American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Free Markets and Unicorns
In contemporary debates over economic policy, we often hear that government intervention in markets should be limited…
Butchering Shakespeare
The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park got unprecedented press this year for staging Julius Caesar as…
Mary Magdalene, Feminist Icon?
Tomorrow Christendom observes the feast of St. Mary Magdalene. The woman from Magdala in Galilee was a…
Putting Infants “Down Like Dogs”
The Charlie Gard tragedy has renewed public advocacy for legalizing infanticide. Writing in the New York Times…
On Healthcare, Don’t Blame Trump
The Republicans control the presidency and have majorities in both houses of Congress, but this unified GOP…
Romanticism of the “Lost Cause”
The ongoing conflict over the removal of Confederate statues in New Orleans, Charlottesville, and elsewhere has provoked…
The Cooler Cold War
The claim that “the Cold War is over” and that the West needs a “new paradigm” for…
Spadaro Contra Franciscum
Fr. Antonio Spadaro and Rev. Marcelo Figueroa have a recent item in the Italian Jesuit review La Civiltà Cattolica, complaining…
We Want God
It’s been some days since President Trump delivered his speech in Poland on “the West,” but the…
Manichaean Misdiagnosis
In a recent issue of La Civiltà Cattolica, Fr. Antonio Spadaro, S.J. and the Rev. Marcelo Figueroa…
The Church of England’s Nietzschean Proposal
In a world of change and flux, it is reassuring to know that some things remain the…
Love at the Edge
Every country has a scent. In countries where bodies smell like bodies, you catch it in the…
Creatures in the Cosmos
What are we humans doing in space? The anxious words of Pascal ring true: “The eternal silence…
Eugene Peterson’s Theological Sigh
This week, Eugene Peterson became arguably the most consequential evangelical to endorse same-sex relationships and marriage.* His…
Beyond Velvet Nihilism
The post-war era is ending. I’ve said that before (“Return of the Strong Gods”). Donald Trump’s address to…
