American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
Defending High Culture
Twenty-five years ago Allan Bloom proclaimed a heresy: The supposed idealism of the 1960s was in fact…
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…
Juliet on Facebook
I saw his Facebook picture, met for chat, And then the two of us said that was…
Now Sing, My Lovelies
Darlings, sing, and open-throated, send your voices, winged with high-flown praise, and raise, not merely roofs, but…
Not Understanding Nothing
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing by lawrence m. krauss free press,…
Letters—June/July 2012
Problematic Premises In response to John Haldane’s argumentum ad consummationem (“Against Erotic Entitlements,” April): Why shouldn’t it…
Did the Highbrows Kill Culture?
Fred Siegel has a piece in the latest issue of Commentary in which he argues that “highbrows”…
