American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Briefly Noted

Various

Wilhelm Röpke’s Political Economy by Samuel Gregg Edward Elgar, 216 pages, $115 n Once upon a time,…

The Preferential Option for the Poor

R. R. Reno

A year or so ago I got together with some college friends. Good guys—careers, families, some churchgoers,…

Ancient Destinations, Modern Journeys

Edward Feser

Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche by James Miller Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 422 pages, $28 n…

Huck Finn the Israelite

Randy Boyagoda

The Instructions by Adam Levin McSweeney’s, 1030 pages, $29 n Using the kind of comprehensive, pick-a-fight judgments…

Evangelical Ressourcement

Nicholas J. Healy Jr.

Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry by Hans Boersma Eerdmans, 218 pages, $20 n The…

Les Regrets, Sonnet 38

Maryann Corbett

Lucky: the man who measures out his days / among his equals—simple, honest, free, / not gripped…

A Review of To Change the World

John Henry Crosby

To Change the World by James Davison Hunter Oxford University Press, 368 pages, $27.95 n In his…

A Review of Constancy and the Ethics of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park

Meghan Duke

Constancy and the Ethics of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park by Joyce Kerr Tarpley Catholic University of America,n288…

The Bearable Lightness of Dignity

Mary Ann Glendon

It’s hard to imagine a decent politics that doesn’t depend on the notion of the dignity of…

A Review of The Future of History

Ryan Sayre Patrico

The Future of History by John Lukacs Yale University Press, 192 pages, $24 n Historian John Lukacs…

A Person You Flee At Parties

David Bentley Hart

Forgive me for simply laying out a sequence of random thoughts (on a single theme) that occurred…

Inevitable Scholasticism

Thomas Joseph White

Introduction to Scholastic Theology by ulrich g. leinsle trans. michael j. miller catholic university of america, 392…

Revelation

Brian Doyle

I am soaking in Revelation, in the King James, just before dawn, / The dog snoring in…

Anniversary In-Sink-Erator

Stephen Scaer

The stream beneath the site of our proposal at Vista Valley Country Club’s faux bridge has brought…

Holy Childhood

Sr. Lou Ella Hickman I.W.B.S.

did you know summer hides / even as she shines...