American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Man the Mystery
From Big Bang to Big Mystery: Human Origins in the Light of Creation and Evolution by Brendan…
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…
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…
Quaker Meeting, Late Winter
I watch the dust motes dance, be tossed on eddies in the sun-streak in its minute advance…
Bored to Death
As Paul’s words droned on like the furry buzz of bees, I unfolded off the floor, crammed myself…
Christmas Caroling in Colonial Williamsburg
Many of those here only know a verse of any given carol, sometimes less— sometimes an isolated…
Briefly Noted
Martin Luther’s Anti-Semitism: Against His Better Judgment by Eric W. Gritsch Eerdmans, 172 pages, $25 Eric Gritsch,…
