American Politics
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Heavy Water
Heavy water, holy water, we are weighed on By your waterweight, you proton- Poisoned fission vintage we…
Sacred Music, Sacred Time
What is sacred music? If we simply mean music that assists liturgy or prayer, the category includes…
God’s First Love: The Theology of Michael Wyschogrod
Paradox attends the influence of Michael Wyschogrod, perhaps the most original Jewish theologian of the past half…
Gambling with Lives
The fifty-something lab technician swabbing my arm before a routine test this past May nodded toward the…
Do Whatever He Tells You: The Blessed Virgin Mary in Christian Faith and Life
In 1994, after intense study, discussion, and prayer, we issued a statement titled “Evangelicals and Catholics Together:…
Port Jackson Greaseproof Rose
Which produced more civilizations, yellow grass or green? Who made poverty legal? Who made poverty at all?…
Be Afraid—Be Very Afraid
The horror-film genre is multiplying like one of its own monsters, showing six-fold growth over the past…
Priest to Pontiff
Benedict XVI: An Intimate Portrait by peter seewald ignatius, 260 pages, $24.95 When Peter Seewald published a…
Origin of the Specious
I suppose it would sound somewhat bigoted of me to say that readers should be suspicious of…
What Does Woman Want?
For a few interesting weeks this summer—catapulted by romantic melodramas with a wide cast of characters, including…
The Return of the Golden Age
Apache rotors, envying windmills no more, Thresh the air wheat-gold. On lonely state routes We can witness…
The Rule of Law and the Wealth of Nations
Fundamentals seem to cluster in foursomes. Classical alchemy had four elements, and classical medicine had four humors.…
Hast Thou Considered My Servant Faust?
Critics often use the Bible to help explain literature, but, on rarer occasion, literature may help us…
Her Choice, Her Problem
This summer, President Obama proclaimed again that we “need fathers to recognize that responsibility doesn’t end at…
Intolerant Tolerance
Some secularists seem to like one-way streets. Their distaste for Christianity leads them to seek to drive…
