American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Harold O.J. Brown (1933–2007)
Whether in foul weather or fair, a bicyclist would sometimes suddenly emerge from an opening in the…
The Pope’s Liturgical Liberalism
One of the more deft moves in Benedict’s apostolic letter motu proprio , titled ” Summorum Pontificum…
In Defense of Human Exceptionalism
Tearing humans off the pedestal of exceptionalism is all the rage today among academics, philosophers, and other…
Stop Reading This Now
What are you doing looking here on the Fourth of July? Go away. Set off some firecrackers.…
The Ten Commandments of … What?
I present to you a document of some forty pages entitled ” Guidelines for the Pastoral Care…
The Relevance of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
“Obscure” hardly begins to describe the obscurity of the German-American thinker Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888¯1973). Though never a…
That Seventies Show
A recent issue of Horizons , the journal of the College Theology Society , a clubby American…
Orwellian Monitors
A pastoral colleague finds it “Orwellian.” He is describing the proposal before the church council of the…
Response to Francis Beckwith
It’s a strange day when I have to agree with Richard Dawkins against Frank Beckwith, but Beckwith’s…
Rejoinder to Miller’s Response
Robert T. Miller is one of my favorite First Things contributors. So it is indeed an honor…
David Brooks Adrift; The Family Chicken and Religious Egg
David Brooks is a most congenial fellow and as bright as a freshly polished penny. We were…
Limbo and the Gospel Out of Season
Back in October, I wrote in this space about how the Vatican’s International Theological Commission (ITC) was…
Religion and Economics III: The Hoary Objections to Capitalism
We keep pulling¯out of bleak embers¯the objections to the American economic system that were already cold thirty…
The Irrationality of Richard Dawkins
In his 2006 book, The God Delusion , Richard Dawkins laments the career path of Kurt Wise,…
Remembrance of Deaths Past ¯ and Present
We often hear these days about the problems and misdeeds of “organized” religion. We much more rarely…
