American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A New Apologetic
The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss by david bentley hart yale, 376 pages, $25 David Bentley…
Living Room Blues
I feel less lonely when I watch TV: The heartbreak and the healing both go quicker, And…
Neither Side Got What It Wanted
On July 21, the President issued an Executive Order prohibiting government contractors from discriminating on the basis…
Will Doctors Be Forced to Kill?
The wailing and gnashing of teeth in some quarters over the modest Hobby Lobby decision has me…
Conservatives’ Mixed Message on Immigration
America has “bad-faith open borders.” We limit immigration but we enforce those limits only sporadically. Fred Bauer…
Why Gay Rights Are Not The New Civil Rights
Supporters of same-sex marriage love to make analogies to the African American Civil Rights Movement. Analogies are…
Middle-East Meets Middle-Earth
Thank you Netanyahu and may God give us more [people] like you to destroy Hamas!” What’s this?…
Uncle Sam Eavesdropping Outside the Confessional
On 28 March, 1606, Fr. Henry Garnet, an English Jesuit, went on trial in London. He was…
For and Against Liberty
In 1969, Canada’s Criminal Law Amendment Act, known as Omnibus Bill C-150, was granted Royal Assent. Introduced…
Unsolicited Advice On How To Find A Mate
In one of his lesser known comedies, playwright Neil Simon depicts the irrationality of undiluted physical attraction…
How We Portray Suffering and Suicide
Those of us who have never experienced severe physical disability have no clue about the depth of…
Winning at the Supreme Court, Losing in the Court of Public Opinion
With all the furor and dishonesty over the Supreme Court’s decisions on contraception and the Religious Freedom…
The Uses of Monarchy
Hereditary monarchy is not exactly a growth industry in the 21st century. But those who imagine monarchy…
Rebuild Penn Station!
Yes, it sounds like a pipe dream. Rebuild Penn Station? Why imagine that’s possible when New York…
Legal wins matter—but culture matters more
Good news today. The decision in the Hobby Lobby case helps prevent progressives from achieving their goal…
