American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Shakespeare’s First Folio Turns 400
In 1632, John Milton published his first poem in English. Long before Paradise Lost had even been…
A Benediction for Mimi
A couple of hours after my wife’s ninety-eight-year-old grandmother had a stroke earlier this month, the family…
Fanon’s Seduction of the Left
Over the weekend, one of my friends from high school, a Harvard graduate, posted to Instagram an…
The Hartford Appeal and the Synod on Synodality
In the winter of 1974, Richard John Neuhaus, then a Lutheran pastor, and Peter Berger, the distinguished…
Zero Gravity History
The World: A Family History of Humanity by simon sebag montefiore knopf, 1,344 pages, $45 Simon Sebag…
What Atoms Can (and Can’t) Tell Us About the Past
It’s entirely possible to read a book with both great appreciation and a good deal of exasperation.…
Archbishop Fernández and the Learning Curve
Pope Francis has just given the Vatican his Ratzinger,” declared one July 2 headline; “Pope Francis Finds…
Reflections on the Revolution in America
The Narrow Passage: Plato, Foucault, and the Possibility of Political Philosophyby glenn ellmersencounter books, 120 pages, $21.99…
The Audiovisual Grandeur of Oppenheimer
For Christopher Nolan, cinema is an “audiovisual experience.” To know what he means, one needs to watch…
Just War, Just Peace, and Ukraine
Carl von Clausewitz, the nineteenth-century Prussian military theorist whose masterpiece, On War, is still studied today, is…
Deneen’s Assault on Vitalism
Patrick Deneen’s new book, Regime Change, has elicited a host of takedowns. It has been called everything…
Divinity Schools and Diversity
Imagine if someone claimed that Jesus was a capitalist. He might point to Jesus’s parable of the…
Letters
Heart’s Longings Jenna Silber Storey and Benjamin Storey’s article “Insight at First Sight” (May 2023) was perceptive and…
Rime Ice
He wouldn’t say her memory was lost But that she was lost in it—the foggy past Clung…
Escape from Irony
Dimes Square and Other Plays by matthew gasda applause, 284 pages, $22.95 Are you religious?” alcoholic rich…
