American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

The Personhood Pincer

Wesley J. Smith

The Nonhuman Rights Project made headlines recently by filing three lawsuits seeking to have chimpanzees declared legal…

An Alternative to the Republican Establishment

Pete Spiliakos

The Republican establishment relies on a consultant class whose gut instincts tell them how to win elections…

Saving Grace, Christian Mission

George Weigel

Wedged between Isaiah’s glorious messianic hymn and Luke’s touching account of the angelic announcement of the Nativity,…

Discrimination Against Christians?

Grégor Puppinck

Christians are facing more and more difficulties in Western society. Every day, especially in Europe, churches and…

Diapers and Diplomas

Sarah Klitenic Wear

Do Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower by mary ann mason, nicholas h. wolfinger,…

Briefly Noted

Various

Contemplative Provocations: Brief, Concentrated Observations on Aspects of a Life with God by fr. donald haggerty ignatius,…

Letters—December 2013

Various

Work–Life Imbalance I agree with Elizabeth Corey (“No Happy Harmony,” October) that there will always be conflict…

The Naked College Quad

Owen Strachan

Gray and magisterial, squarely planted in the heart of campus, Bowdoin’s chapel keeps watch over all who…

Time’s on Our Side

Matthew W. Maguire

The Illusion of History: Time and the Radical Political Imagination by andrew r. russ catholic university of…

Jesus the Muslim Hippie

Gabriel Said Reynolds

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

Stephen H. Webb

Catholic churches are hard on the hard of hearing. Part of the problem is architectural. Catholic churches…

Death’s Lover

Mattia Ferraresi

Gabriele d’Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War? by lucy hughes-hallett ?knopf, 608 pages, $35 n An…

Briefly Noted

Various

The Common Mind: Politics, Society and Christian Humanism from Thomas More to Russell Kirk ? by andré…

My First Ordination

Brian Doyle

My first date with the sweet, wild woman who eventually married me was as follows: We drove…

Late Planting Il.

Timothy Murphy

Two hundred miles I sojourned yesterday / to see one tractor and its drill / seeding the…