American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Sure Sign of Old Age
For my father’s generation, the key sign of advancing years was the fact that the policemen started…
Disciples Are Made in the Home
Demography, Culture, and the Decline of America’s Christian Denominations by george hawleylexington books, 238 pages, $95.00 It’s no…
The First Responder
Confessing all the secret things in the warm velvet box To the priest—he’s the doctor—he can handle…
Learning to Sit in the Sun
Thomas A. Clark is ambitious. In a short essay on “Imaginative Space,” the Scottish poet describes our…
Home, Not Freedom
I’m a proponent of academic freedom. But what we need today is a home and an inheritance,…
Fencing with Bigots
. . . being an imaginary dialogue between a nominee to a Federal appeals court and members…
An Empty Parliament
My nastier, more vindictive side rather hopes that it will take so long to renovate the British…
Empathy is Not Charity
Martin Scorsese’s recent film Silence, like the historical novel by Shūsaku Endō on which it is based,…
9.5 Theses
In this 500th anniversary year of the Reformation, there are countless angles from which to think about…
Remembering Peter Berger
Peter Berger, who died on June 27 at age eighty-eight, ranked among the most distinguished sociological thinkers…
The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
The recent passing of Michael Novak prompted me to take up his masterpiece once again. I first…
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…
Pornography Is Worse than Feminism
I understand what Ben Domenech is trying to say in his eulogy for Hugh Hefner, but I’m…
Euthanasia for Alzheimer’s Patients?
The medically vulnerable have rarely been in greater jeopardy. Alzheimer’s disease patients are at particular risk. In…
