American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Offense of Piety
The intemperate, even violent tone in recent criticisms of faith is quite striking. Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens: They…
The Giving and Taking of Organs
In The Patient as Person , published almost forty years ago, when transplantation technology was still in…
Lincoln and the Will of God
The famed nineteenth-century mystic Nettie Colburn Maynard wasn’t a professional writer”her time spent communing with the Next…
The Judgment of Memory
I My wife dreams of Brazilian cities: Salvador da Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, enormous South American cityscapes…
What McGovern Wrought
Why the Democrats Are Blue: Secular Liberalism and the Decline of the People’s Party by Mark Stricherz…
God Returns to French Philosophy
Counter-Experiences: Reading Jean-Luc Marion edited by Kevin Hart University of Notre Dame Press, 496 pages, $40 René…
Incantation
The carapace of each past day: undo. Let the scales fall and if remote and small still…
Religious Freedom Upside Down (and a word on William F. Buckley Jr.)
Steven D. Smith, professor of law at the University of San Diego, has an admirable review of…
Reproduction and Public Discourse
Benedict XVI recently asked the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to turn its attention to…
The Pope and the United Nations
The pope has John Allen worried. In a column published in the New York Times , Allen,…
The Death of the Grown-up
My reflexive response on reading Diana West’s The Death of the Grown-up has been to keep announcing…
An Interview with Timothy Keller
On any given Sunday in Manhattan, before and after theater matinees, visits to museums, and walks in…
The Engines That Run the World
The more cynical may say it is a small price to pay for achieving the stature of…
The Tears of Abraham
In his meditation on the sources of human community, “ Death and Politics ,” Jody Bottum makes…
Ironies in the Fire
We all complain at times about the tiresome discussions of the shifting meanings of left and right…
