American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Reflections on the Revolution in Rome
As mediated by the journalists, the story of the Second Vatican Council was framed as a battle…
Who’s Afraid of the Awful Truth?
Edward Albee’s play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which opened on Broadway on the eve of the…
Lilacs
Lilacs, pummeled in pounding rain, their sweetness sweeter for the pain, release redemptive suffering scent as they…
Man the Mystery
From Big Bang to Big Mystery: Human Origins in the Light of Creation and Evolution by Brendan…
Jacob and Esau
From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933–1965 by John Connelly Harvard,…
The Anxious Parent
The trampoline, that upset them. We bought one of the big round ones for our eldest’s sixteenth…
Utility’s Deceptions
Peter Singer and Christian Ethics: Beyond Polarization by charles c. camosy cambridge, 284 pages, $29.99 Peter Singer…
False Neutrality
It’s Even Worse than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of…
Astronomical Aubade
I looked for it, low in the east, Where it was scheduled to appear. Good sightings of…
Three Prayers
I rarely pray to Christ. His sacrifice was so perfect, it’s far beyond my ken. I’m one…
America’s Crusades
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy by Andrew Preston Knopf,…
Briefly Noted
Will Many Be Saved? What Vatican II Actually Teaches and Its Implications for the New Evangelization by…
Winter Wind
Leaf-laden lately, beech limbs once reached the ground, swaying. Lightened now, choreic, bare, they twitch. An abandoned…
Augustine in the Dust
Sergeant Dwayne Miller’s breath came quick and his jaw clenched as he began relating a story to…
Christmas Caroling in Colonial Williamsburg
Many of those here only know a verse of any given carol, sometimes less— sometimes an isolated…
