American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Stealing Pears
Iniquity, O Lord, can be delicious: / always in season, always tender, sweet, / blushing, and aromatic.…
Letters—June/July 2017
Never Retreat The whole history of the West can be told as a history of getting Augustine…
Interreligious Dialogue with Edge and Purpose
The evening of September 12, 2006, was, in a word, memorable. My wife and I were having…
The Limits of Planned Parenthood’s Storytelling
Joss Whedon tells stories about heroes, whether they’re California teenagers slaying vampires, a misfit band of smugglers…
A Restless Mind, In Search of Truth
The news came as a shock, but turned into an outpouring of love and affection, reminiscences and…
What I Saw At The Debate Between Dissent and American Affairs
Down under the Manhattan Bridge overpass, young writers and editors dressed in black crowd into the offices…
Keep Christianity Weird
Destroyer of the Godsby larry hurtadobaylor, 304 pages, $19.95 Three professors at a prestigious divinity school recently…
Bearing Witness from Prison in Indonesia
He is called Ahok, and until a few weeks ago he was one of Indonesia’s most powerful…
Time for a “Populist” Bioethics Commission
Donald Trump has been president for less than five months, but his plate is already full: Iran,…
The Art of Verbal Jousting
In the past few weeks, things blew up at Duke Divinity School. Paul Griffiths launched a salvo…
Pick Your Poison
It is possible that Donald Trump has engaged in criminal activity while president. It is possible that…
Catholic Lite and Europe’s Demographic Suicide
Ten years ago, after my meditation on Europe, The Cube and the Cathedral, had appeared in several…
Ivanka, Jared, and the Jewish Sabbath
The media frenzy surrounding President Trump has included reports about his daughter and son-in-law’s observance of Jewish…
The Saul Complex
Saul’s three sins (1 Samuel 13-15) correspond to the sins of Adam, Cain, and the sons of…
Tracing Church History through Old Newspapers
There is a saying, variously attributed, that journalism is the first rough draft of history. There is…
