American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Milton’s Apple and Ours
Why did Eve bite the apple? Milton puts this question at the center of Paradise Lost, the greatest…
Abundance
Clear water on a Catskill stream spills, flowing down a smooth rock face into a pool shaped…
Letters – April 2024
Rossetti’s Art Living within a stone’s throw of the nation’s leading collection of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood art housed…
Why the Left Won’t Condemn the October 7 Rapes
In 2015, Columbia University was in an uproar over Ovid’s Metamorphoses, which was, at the time, required…
Modern Martyrs of Communism
Bianca Jagger just issued a thundering warning about Nicaragua’s human rights abuses: “Just like the Castro Regime…
Leave Them Kids Alone
Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up by abigail shrier sentinel, 320 pages, $30 Is there…
Letters
Biblical Themes For a magazine devoted to religion and public life, the piece by R. R. Reno…
Homer’s Reach
Homer and His Iliad by robin lane fox basic books, 464 pages, $32.50 The Iliad by homer,…
Reclaiming a Culture of Life in Health Care
A faithful and inspiring Catholic man was battling cancer earlier this year. Looking for hospice care, he…
Punished for Getting Married
In traditional marriage vows, husband and wife promise to care for each other “in sickness and in…
Love Among the Ashes
February 14 this year brings the rare convergence of Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day. Rarer still is…
Hegel Vindicated
Hegel: The Philosopher of Freedom by klaus vieweg stanford university, 488 pages, $40 Klaus Vieweg’s eight-hundred-page biography of…
Hedgehogs, Foxes, and Other Thinkers
Years ago, I spent a month with my family in Burundi. I had once worked there when…
Tohu wa-bohu on the Tiber
Within twenty-four hours last month, three mainstream Catholic websites ran stories describing Pope Francis’s meeting with the…
Captain Bob
On the day my family moved into our home in Northern Virginia, we found a bottle of…