American Politics
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Learning From Charlie Gard
While sitting on hospital medical-ethics committees, I have sometimes worried that physicians are tempted, against the wishes…
The Bitter Truth About Our Economy and Ourselves
The jobs environment for low-skill workers is finally improving. Unemployment for our least-skilled workers is down to…
Questions of Competence
It’s a safe bet that 99.95 percent of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics have never heard of…
The Very Model of a Modern Catholic Statesman?
British Tory Member of Parliament Jacob Rees-Mogg is gaining a massive following on social media. Young people…
Ruth to Naomi
Narrow the house may be and poor, / But should it be where you will stay...
Burns in Glory
The Oxford Edition of the Works of Robert Burns, Volume I: Commonplace Books, Tour Journals, and Miscellaneous…
Tate Unmodern
Allen Tate: The Modern Mind and the Discovery of Enduring Loveby john v. glass iiithe catholic university…
Pontifex Minimus
Building a Bridge:How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect,…
Dying of Despair
On November 4, 2014, sixteen-year-old Cameron Lee, a popular, athletic, straight-A student at Henry M. Gunn High…
Caribbean Rhapsode
The great poet of the Caribbean, Derek Walcott, passed away at home on his native island of…
Make Hell Hot Again
I have a problem with hell that goes beyond squeamishness. The problem is one of inserting the damned…
Paradise Possible
Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America’s Most Radical Ideaby erik reecefarrar, straus and giroux, 368 pages,…
A Test for Classical Christian Students
“No more teaching to the test!” is the battle cry of the growing anti-testing movement in primary…
Teaching Submission After Trump
The University of Chicago does not support so-called trigger warnings. At least, that is what the dean…
Are Jihadis “Losers”?
When I first visited Israel in 1988, my friend Professor Menahem Milson, a distinguished Arabist at Hebrew…
