American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Zion in Winter
Is religious Zionism in crisis? The 2005 withdrawal from Gaza, and the Oslo peace process that preceded…
Filmmaking by Numbers
It’s a sign of the times that Federico Fellini’s 1963 classic 8½ ”widely considered the best film…
Review of Intellectual Appetite: A Theological Grammar
Intellectual Appetite: A Theological Grammar by Paul Griffiths CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, 235 PAGES, $24.95 n All…
Fast and Furioso
Orlando Furioso: A New Verse Translation by Ludovico Ariosto translated by David R. Slavitt Belknap, 688 pages,…
Some Like It Warm
These days, in the matter of climate change, simple epistemology has become a matter of dispute. Competing…
Tuesdays With Morbid
Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom Hyperion, 254 pages, $23.99 n I would be very surprised…
The Metaphysics of Success
Supposing God to be exactly that which happens anyway, however tall you build your house, your bank…
The Killer Instinct
A friend of mine, in her college days, had a bumper sticker that offered this peaceful counsel:…
Treasures in Heaven
Go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven”…
Living Constitution, Dying Faith
Living Constitution, Dying Faith: Progressivism and the New Science of Jurisprudence by Bradley C.S. Watson ISI Books,…
Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor
Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor by Eamon Duffy Yale, 280 pages, $28.50 n Before…
Disorder in the Court
Since Oliver Cromwell allowed Jews to settle in England in 1656, Britain’s Jews have often suffered indignities,…
From Eire to Eternity
A Very Brief History of Eternity by Carlos Eire Princeton, 258 pages, $24.95 Carlos Eire, A Yale…
Descendants
Soon enough, new pharaohs arise. On sand these leaders shift The winds aside. Like gods they flood…
All Together Now
Biblical Natural Law: A Theocentric and Teleological Approach by Matthew Levering Oxford, 260 pages, $110 The Dominican…
