American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Homage to a Christian Humanist
When John T. Noonan, Jr. died last week at the age of 90, the American people lost…
Kink is Not Conscience
Why are some conservative-leaning writers defending Larry Garfield? Garfield was until recently a major developer at Drupal,…
Al Gore’s Holy Anger
When asked how he dealt with hostile skeptics, Al Gore first advised against returning anger with anger.…
France is a Broken Country
The results of the first round of France’s 2017 presidential election have predictably been portrayed as embodying…
Anti-Christianity in France
On the day after François Fillon’s victory in the Republican primary in France last November, the leftist…
Evolving Toward Africa
We Westerners know how modernization works. Light dawns in the north and west and spreads Reason and…
The Papal View from the Global South
This Economy Kills: Pope Francis on Capitalism and Social Justiceby andrea tornielli and giacomo galeazzi, trans. by…
We Should All Be Grateful for Gorsuch
Liberals who are dismayed by the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch should cheer up. Things…
Pilgrims of Progress
America’s national epic was not written in meter and verse. Nor, for that matter, was it written…
A Springtime of Hope for Catholic Education
Recent announcements out of two Catholic colleges appear to provide both good news and bad news about…
Surveying Sex, Denying Childhood
Is it appropriate for strangers to ask a thirteen-year-old girl whether she has ever had sexual intercourse?…
First Words
Why Only Us: Language and Evolutionby robert c. berwick and noam chomskymit press, 224 pages, $22.95 Perhaps…
Moral Minority
The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation by Rod Dreher Sentinel, 272 pages,…
The Dark Russian
Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs by douglas smith farrar, straus and giroux, 848…
Ascension Day: Facing East
“Between the essence and the descentFalls the shadow.”—T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men “. . . All…
