American Politics
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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…
Struggle Against the Gods
Because of my legal work on behalf of groups persecuted by the Chinese government, I have been…
Going Benedict, Orthodox Jewish Style
In Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, characters “go Galt” by disappearing into a valley, Galt’s Gulch, when society…
Rivers Declared to Be “Persons”
We live in truly surreal times. In an age when all human beings still do not have…
Looking for Some Health Care Heroes
The attempt by the mismatched team of Donald Trump and Paul Ryan to repeal Obamacare has failed.…
