American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Two Davids
Michelangelo’s David is too smooth and fair and too Italian”too much like a boy who’d stand with…
A Review of Redeeming Economics
Redeeming Economics: Rediscovering the Missing Element by John D. Mueller ISI Books, 400 pages, $27.95 n Harry…
A Review of Early Modern Jewry
Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History by David B. Ruderman Princeton, 336 pages, $35 n “Early,…
The Man Who Would Be King
1 Samuel: Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible by Francesca Aran Murphy Brazos, 336 pages, $34.99 n…
Gargoyle
Consider the fierce stone features of its face a vaccination of demonic strain, a backfire lit on…
Tough
The Spartan boy who steals a fox endures with fortitude the roiling mound scratching at his proud…
Quid Hoc Ad Aeternitatem
Quid hoc ad aeternitatem, as old Saint Bernard of Clairvaux Used to mumble when faced with the…
A Review of Full of Grace
Full of Grace: Encountering Mary in Faith, Art, and Life by Judith Dupré Random House, 352 pages,…
Why the News Makes Us Dumb
The period between Christmas and New Year’s Day is often described as a “slow-news week.” We use…
Oil in the Gulf, 2010
Watch as it spreads and curls like a midnight lily aching into the open air, blooming with…
The Wrong Key
Christ the Key By Kathryn Tanner Cambridge, 309 pages, $29.99 Far too much of what is published…
Near Starbucks
A homeless woman sleeps outside the door. She smells of urine so the customers Who eat brioche…
Hail
Like this Auschwitz barbed-wire rosary” clipped with teeth and finger twisted, black-blood-stained, rain-encrusted, thorny, skin-pricking, motherly-misery- pregnant,…
Apocalypse No
A habit of pessimism, it seems, comes with the conservative territory. It’s been more than half a…
The Girl with the Franzen Tattoo
Freedom By Jonathan Franzen Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 576 pages, $28 What if Jane Austen’s Bennet sisters…
