American Politics
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False Neutrality
It’s Even Worse than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of…
Astronomical Aubade
I looked for it, low in the east, / Where it was scheduled to appear. / Good…
Three Prayers
I rarely pray to Christ. His sacrifice / was so perfect, it’s far beyond my ken. ...
America’s Crusades
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy by Andrew Preston Knopf,…
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.…
Bored to Death
As Paul’s words droned on like the furry buzz of bees, I unfolded off the floor, /…
Christmas Caroling in Colonial Williamsburg
Many of those here only know a verse / of any given carol, sometimes less— / sometimes…
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…
The Births of Aphrodite and Athena
The one swirled out of foam, the other mind; / The one disturbs the fish, like bright,…
The Stocking Feeder
The stocking feeder was an instant hit: / Birds came as soon as I suspended it /…
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...
Letters—November 2012
After Liberalism As a student of late medieval political thought, I was happy to see that my…
