American Politics
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Three Riddles by Saint Aldhelm
63 When bloody flooding killed the human race And brand-new oceans put man in his place, Except…
The Flimflam Theater
When I was a boy I had a friend named Dennis McCann Who was totally and utterly…
Home Not Alone
The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents, and the Private Toll of Global Competition by Katherine S.…
Evil Within and Without
Demonic Desires: “Yetzer Hara” and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity by Ishay Rosen-Zvi University of…
Defending Religious Liberty
Notre Dame teaches physics and philosophy, and so does the University of Chicago. Both raise money, field…
The Holy Spirit Did Preside
A newly married layman and graduate student, I found myself in Rome in 1963 covering the second…
Briefly Noted
Dynamic Transcendentals: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty from a Thomistic Perspective by Alice M. Ramos Catholic University of…
Freedom By Association
In New York City, about one hundred and fifty churches and religious groups—many of them serving poor…
Boys Wanna Fight
A History of Violence: From the End of the Middle Ages to the Present by Robert Muchembled…
Cordially, Richard John Neuhaus
September 2004: Richard John Neuhaus was feeling tired and a little glum. This he had not expected,…
Ray Bradbury, the Pedestrian
In the month since Ray Bradbury died at the age of 91, a host of tributes have…
Our One-Eyed Friends
It wasn’t a conclusion he thought he’d come to. When he was a young graduate student, Jonathan…
Grand Rounds with Jews and Jesuits
When I awoke at 6:00 a.m. to attend shacharit (the first prayer service of the day), I…
Judaism and the Limits of Liberalism
The following is a response to David S. Yeago’s “ Modern but Not Liberal .” The other…
The Revolt of the Right
Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to…
