American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Changing of the Guard
Good for Commonweal magazine. In a recent issue they published a balanced discussion of the Catholic theological…
Exile and Homecoming
Yale professor Carlos Eire is a fine scholar of late-medieval and Reformation history, and a superb memoirist…
Notes from the Editor’s Desk
After three years as managing editor of First Things , Mary Rose Somarriba is leaving us. She’s…
At the Right Hand
Ascension Theology by Douglas Farrow T&T Clark, 177 pages, $27.95 n Simply put,” writes Douglas Farrow, “our…
Wagner’s Incestuous Narcissism
The curtain rises in silence to reveal a stage composed of parallel white planks. With the first…
A Splendid Wickedness
The literature of Spain’s “Golden Age” produced two figures—Don Quixote de La Mancha and Don Juan Tenorio—who…
The Cosmopolitan Conservative
Has American liberalism lost its capacity to govern? I’m afraid so. Liberals can still win elections and…
Deferred
I never shot a commie or a Nazi / In ’66, but this is what I did:…
Whether Faith Needs Philosophy
Abelard, claimed St. Bernard, was a logic-chopping rationalist whose writings were symptomatic of the anti-contemplative theology of…
Equal Rights, Unequal Wrongs
In most states, young people can drive a car at sixteen. At eighteen, they can vote and…
Why Polls Make Us Dumb
There are three groups of people who consistently have a detrimental affect on American politics: Republicans, Democrats,…
A Prophet Wrongly Honored
Terry Eagleton made his name in the 1980s by demonstrating that it is possible to write wittily…
Westernizing Islam and the American Right
At the end of The Searchers, John Wayne stands framed by the darkened doorway of a cabin,…
Death by Water
Every sea-born whale is born to drown, / Save those lost few who crush their final breath...
Sales Pitch
He walked with me around the grounds, / expecting me to give away” / by how I…
