American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Whatever Happened to Sacral Kingship?
The Watershed of Modern Politics: Law, Virtue, Kingship, and Consent (1300-1650)by Francis OakleyYale University Press, 440 pages,…
Rise of the “Unholy Left”
The Devil’s Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West by michael…
What Kind of Nationalism Do We Want?
The recent victory of the right-populist National Front in France and Donald Trumps’ continued lead in the…
Neoconservative Catholicism in America
A Partisan Church: American Catholicism and the Rise of Neoconservative Catholics by todd scribner cua, 155 pages,…
Revealing God
Engaging the Doctrine of Revelation: The Mediation of the Gospel through Church and Scripture by matthew levering…
Go Figure
Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness by richard b. hays baylor, 177 pages, $34.95…
Accepting Limits
The Prophet of Cuernavaca: Ivan Illich and the Crisis of the West by todd hartch oxford, 256…
The Joke around the Water Cooler and Other Dilemmas
Let us nail ourselves to him, resistingthe temptation to stand apart or to joinothers in mocking him.”…
The Beastly Paradox
Blaise Pascal spoke of the contradiction in every human heart. Man is an animal at once godlike…
An Epitaph for my Parents’ Graves
Their headstones now have sunken into sand,amid tall weeds, some cholla, scattered sage,the writing visible, but not…
Roll Call at Acheron
The sound was coming from so far awaywe thought at first it was the breath we missedthe…
Equality Across Borders
Rediscovering America: Liberty, Equality, and the Crisis of Democracy by john agrestoasahina & wallace, 236 pages, $16.00…
We Are In This Together
Neither political party is speaking to the collective interests of America’s wage-earners. Each party, in its own…
A Thanksgiving Meditation on Freedom and Its Enemies
Shortly after jihadist murderers killed over 130 people in Paris, seven of the terrorists blowing themselves up…
Even if Carson “Wins,” We Lose
Ben Carson might well profit from his presidential campaign, but his conservative supporters have already lost. They…
