American Politics
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Good Shepherds
Advent, which will begin in a little over a week, celebrates the coming of the Good Shepherd…
Imagining Death
How Then Should We Die?:Two Opposing Responses to the Challenges of Suffering and Deathby s. kay toombscolloquium…
A Drag Show at Notre Dame
Several departments at the University of Notre Dame, founded in 1842 under the patronage of the Virgin…
My Father’s Living Will
It is a haze of fog and low cloud at dawn and the kookaburras are wild with…
Shakespeare’s First Folio Turns 400
In 1632, John Milton published his first poem in English. Long before Paradise Lost had even been…
A Benediction for Mimi
A couple of hours after my wife’s ninety-eight-year-old grandmother had a stroke earlier this month, the family…
Fanon’s Seduction of the Left
Over the weekend, one of my friends from high school, a Harvard graduate, posted to Instagram an…
The Hartford Appeal and the Synod on Synodality
In the winter of 1974, Richard John Neuhaus, then a Lutheran pastor, and Peter Berger, the distinguished…
Zero Gravity History
The World: A Family History of Humanity by simon sebag montefiore knopf, 1,344 pages, $45 Simon Sebag…
What Atoms Can (and Can’t) Tell Us About the Past
It’s entirely possible to read a book with both great appreciation and a good deal of exasperation.…
Archbishop Fernández and the Learning Curve
Pope Francis has just given the Vatican his Ratzinger,” declared one July 2 headline; “Pope Francis Finds…
Reflections on the Revolution in America
The Narrow Passage: Plato, Foucault, and the Possibility of Political Philosophyby glenn ellmersencounter books, 120 pages, $21.99…
The Audiovisual Grandeur of Oppenheimer
For Christopher Nolan, cinema is an “audiovisual experience.” To know what he means, one needs to watch…
Just War, Just Peace, and Ukraine
Carl von Clausewitz, the nineteenth-century Prussian military theorist whose masterpiece, On War, is still studied today, is…
Deneen’s Assault on Vitalism
Patrick Deneen’s new book, Regime Change, has elicited a host of takedowns. It has been called everything…
