American Politics
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Good News for the Naked Public University
Recently, an academic administrator informed me that passing judgment on others’ sexual orientation or religious beliefs was…
Of Michael Landon and Brittany Maynard
Michael Landon, the hugely popular television star of Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie, and Highway to…
Neither Prudence Nor Courage
While campaigning for the Republican nomination in the Iowa senatorial race, Joni Ernst had called for the…
Left, Right, Prudence, Principle, and Catholic Social Doctrine
A long-running battle between the so-called Catholic left and the so-called Catholic right concerns which political issues…
A Paradigm Shift in International Development
Someone from the international aid and development industry has some explaining to do. In an analysis of financial…
Ecclesiocentrism
Hauerwas: A (Very) Critical Introduction by nicholas m. healy eerdmans, 154 pages, $23 Good books on contemporary…
The New New Left
The New New Left We’re heading toward a meritocratic, libertarian-tilting consensus in America. That’s my reading of…
On a Bird
The swift perched, tweeting like a petty tyrant, Ruffling the feathers of self-love and power, And dropped…
Singing Lessons
As my daughter and I travelled home over the Wicklow Mountains, our voices echoed between the cliffs,…
A Pessimistic Case for Hope
Ten years ago this fall, it seemed for a moment like social conservatives might be ascendant in…
The Election of 1800
Everything that makes American politics the best outdoor sport ever shows up in the presidential election of…
Standing Against the Human “Dignity Deniers”
God may not be dead, but considering the imago Dei in philosophical discourse and public policy certainly…
A False Choice
The performance of populist parties in Europe should be a warning for American conservatives. Those European parties…
Tocqueville in Arabia
Over the course of the last three hundred years, in broad swaths of the globe where Anglo-American…
Regensburg Vindicated
On the evening of Sept. 12, 2006, my wife and I were dining in Cracow with Polish…
