American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

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…

Our Failed Religious Freedom Policy

Thomas F. Farr

The religious freedom policy mandated by the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act has now been in operation…

Triplicity

Amit Majmudar

Infinity / requires us / to count to three...

Anchorite

Amit Majmudar

It would seem, from the sound of it, slang / In Her Majesty’s Navy, say, circa /…

Monuments

Bryce Christensen

You’re with us still, your names engraved in stone, / Inscribed in bronze, recited every May. /…

Our Lady of Wheaton

Matthew Milliner

Mary, it seems, is a hot Evangelical topic. As a new professor at Wheaton College, I proposed…

No Honor

Carol A. Taylor

I stole an apple, ripe and red, / hanging on my neighbor’s tree. / “He’ll never miss…

A Summer Idyll

Catharine Savage Brosman

We’re superannuated now, no doubt. / Impossible to overlook the facts: / age blotches skin, puts muscle…

Torture and Terror

Michael B. Mukasey

The Ethics of Interrogation: Professional Responsibility in an Age of Terror by Paul Lauritzen Georgetown, 208 pages,…