American Politics

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Letters—February 2014

Various

Jesus in Islam In “Jesus the Muslim Hippie” (December), Gabriel Said Reynolds demonstrates the dissonance within the…

Art and Soul

Ralph C. Wood

A Prayer Journal by flannery o’connor farrar, straus and giroux, 112 pages, $18If we could accurately map…

New Homophiles: Stories Without a Who or What

Elizabeth Scalia

Spend time before a crucifix and the major virtues Christ Jesus embodies there are quickly in evidence:…

Little Sisters in the Political Madhouse

Pete Spiliakos

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has blocked the administration’s mandate that the Little Sisters of the Poor…

The Poorest of the Poor

George Weigel

Pope Francis has ignited a useful and necessary conversation about our responsibilities to the poorest of the…

Conservatism, Evangelii Gaudium, and the Social Market

James R. Rogers

Liberal commentators, both religious and secular, have cheered what they take as the recent comeuppance Catholic and…

Truncating the Politics of Jesus

Peter J. Leithart

John Howard Yoder’s now-classic The Politics of Jesus sparked a revolution. For centuries, Jesus’ lordship had been…

Marriage Is a Matter of Definition

Peter Sprigg

November 18 marked the 10th anniversary of the landmark decision by the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) of…

Impeach Obama 2014

Russell E. Saltzman

I cannot think of anything more disastrous for the Republican Party than an attempt to impeach the…

Child in Cradle with Kneeling Girl

Sharon Fish Mooney

Vincent van Gogh pencil and charcoal drawing, 1883 She has no gold, no myrrh, no frankincense, Yet…

Harvard and the Humanities

Samuel Goldman

n Harvard professors do a bad job of holding on to freshmen. In the last eleven incoming…

The Coventry Carol

Al Basile

Driving on the Solstice, tuning in to Public Radio, I heard a voice, legitimately trained, a little…

Richard John Neuhaus, Father

Nathaniel Peters

I did not think I knew much about death. In high school, my headmaster reminded us constantly…

The Broken Body

Telford Work

A Brutal Unity: The Spiritual Politics of the Christian Church by ephraim radner baylor, 482 pages, $59.95…

Punching the Clock

Brian Doyle

Our children, now lanky teenagers and just past The part where it’s all about them, are hilariously…