American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Naked College Quad
Gray and magisterial, squarely planted in the heart of campus, Bowdoin’s chapel keeps watch over all who…
Time’s on Our Side
The Illusion of History: Time and the Radical Political Imagination by andrew r. russ catholic university of…
Jesus the Muslim Hippie
Many Christians and other non-Muslims who want to understand the Christ of Islam turn to the Qur’an,…
Catholic Churches and the Hard of Hearing
Catholic churches are hard on the hard of hearing. Part of the problem is architectural. Catholic churches…
Death’s Lover
Gabriele d’Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War? by lucy hughes-hallett ?knopf, 608 pages, $35 n An…
Briefly Noted
The Common Mind: Politics, Society and Christian Humanism from Thomas More to Russell Kirk ? by andré…
My First Ordination
My first date with the sweet, wild woman who eventually married me was as follows: We drove…
Late Planting Il.
Two hundred miles I sojourned yesterday to see one tractor and its drill …
Our Failed Religious Freedom Policy
The religious freedom policy mandated by the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act has now been in operation…
Triplicity
Infinity requires us to count to three, our calculus and three-step proof. Dust cubed is dust: The…
Anchorite
It would seem, from the sound of it, slang ?In Her Majesty’s Navy, say, circa ?Trafalgar”the deckhand…
Monuments
You’re with us still, your names engraved in stone, ?Inscribed in bronze, recited every May. ?Fresh flowers”mums,…
Our Lady of Wheaton
Mary, it seems, is a hot Evangelical topic. As a new professor at Wheaton College, I proposed…
No Honor
I stole an apple, ripe and red, ?hanging on my neighbor’s tree. ?“He’ll never miss just one,”…
A Summer Idyll
We’re superannuated now, no doubt. Impossible to overlook the facts: age blotches skin, puts muscle tone to…
