American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Right to Do Wrong? A Rejoinder to Miller
Robert Miller worries that one of the arguments in my post on Amnesty International is philosophically unsound…
Response to “A Respectful Word on Episcopal Competence”
As a longtime reader and fan of
Danger and Opportunity: A Plea to Catholics
We live in a time of both danger and opportunity for the Catholic Church in the United…
Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger (1926–2007): An Appreciation
In the early 1950s, or so I’m told, two young men who would later come to world…
Is Amnesty International Incoherent?
Ryan Anderson argued persuasively last week that Amnesty International’s new position on abortion laws makes AI effectively…
Looking for America
Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life by Hugh Brogan Yale University Press, 736 pages, $35 Hugh Brogan’s Alexis…
Work Song
From the day my old man hazed the young cadet to now, as I pull on my…
Evangelicals and the Great Tradition
This spring, the evangelical world was roiled when Francis J. Beckwith, a professor of church-state studies at…
What Is Anglicanism?
Few would deny that the Anglican Communion is in crisis. The nature of that crisis, however, remains…
Zen in Venice: An Interview
On July 22, 2007, Cardinal Zen Ze-kiun of Hong Kong lunched with Benedict XVI in Lorenzago di…
70 or 70 x 7?
The New American Bible (NAB), an unfortunate translation episcopally imposed upon Catholics for readings at Mass, has…
Amnesty International’s Moral Incoherence
This May, First Things broke the news of Amnesty International’s change of policy from neutrality to pro-abortion…
Sharing Chores?
My suspicions were aroused when I saw a headline to a July 1 Associated Press story in…
The Silence of Saul Friedlander
In the world of Holocaust scholarship, Saul Friedlander is a major presence. A professor of history at…
Culture Matters
Having accepted Thomas Sowell’s great thesis that differences among peoples commonly attributed to race really reflect culture,…
