American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal by Rob Riemen Yale, 160 pages, $22 This is an admirable…
The Rare Achievement of Disagreement
Look, when we think about ending an early human life, this is something that is really bad…
Prophesying to the Breath
I’m tired of it, this labored breathing. Tired of phlegm and coughing and the fight for air,…
Drinking Stars
Down in the soul’s wine cellars The casks of virtue brood. They’re aging through the centuries, Like…
Missing Mass
My plane was late”I’ve missed the evening Mass; So now I take a walk and try to…
Contemptus Mundi and the Love of Life
Just down the road from the lively Piazza Barberini is a Capuchin church, Santa Maria della Concezione.…
The Freedom of Theology
Benedict XVI, before becoming supreme pastor of the Catholic Church, served for two decades as a theology…
Uncomfortable Unbelief
A Secular Age by charles taylor belknap, 896 pages, $39.95 Much about the new atheism that has…
The Ethics of Immigration: An Exchange
William W. Chip Until very recently, serious conversation about immigration was all but banished from mainstream American…
William F. Buckley Jr. and the Possibilities of Life
I was privileged to count him as a friend for well over a quarter century. The two…
The Bible Inside and Out
James L. Kugel has long been something of an outside insider”or maybe an inside outsider. In the…
Class and the Classroom
Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites by Mitchell L. Stevens Harvard University Press,…
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Myth and Thought Among the Greeks by Jean-Pierre Vernant Zone, 505 pages, $25 The superciliousness of Vernant’s…
The Pious Infidel
Though the most Deistic of the Founding Fathers, even Jefferson was not a full-fledged Deist if we…
Liberalism’s Troubled Search for Equality
In Liberalism’s Troubled Search for Equality , Robert P. Jones takes the measure of contemporary assisted-suicide advocacy…
