American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Briefly Noted
Will Many Be Saved? What Vatican II Actually Teaches and Its Implications for the New Evangelization by…
Winter Wind
Leaf-laden lately, beech limbs once reached the ground, swaying. Lightened now, choreic, bare, they twitch. An abandoned…
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,…
My Mother’s Smile
Her hair still hardly touched with grey, and wound in gleaming braids around her head, my mother,…
The Births of Aphrodite and Athena
The one swirled out of foam, the other mind; The one disturbs the fish, like bright, lost…
The Stocking Feeder
The stocking feeder was an instant hit: Birds came as soon as I suspended it Above the…
Homo Immolans
On Sacrifice by Moshe Halbertal Princeton, 152 pages, $24.95 Moshe Halbertal, a professor of Jewish thought at…
Quaker Meeting, Late Winter
I watch the dust motes dance, be tossed on eddies in the sun-streak in its minute advance…
Letters—November 2012
After Liberalism As a student of late medieval political thought, I was happy to see that my…
A Spade to Dig With
For a large part of the past school year, my daughter and her classmates went to school…
Travel Magazine Revised
The beauty luring men aboard the ship In time’s a wreck, unsightly and ignored. The handsome playboy…
Childish Adults
Childism: Confronting Prejudice Against Children by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Yale, 368 pages, $28 n With three pre-schoolers in…
The Battle Already Won
If we believe in the sure triumph of Christ, why do we allow ourselves to be drawn…
