American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Assault on Christendom
Wow. We didn’t know. The “Hallelujah Chorus” is a paean celebrating Titus’ sack of Jerusalem and the…
Free Will and Physics
John Rose wrote here yesterday concerning Einstein’s attempted reconciliation of complete physical determinism and human free will,…
Am I Free to Pour My Own Coffee?
One rarely needs to argue in favor of free will. “Sir, we know our will is free,…
Einstein and Faith
Walter Isaacson’s biography Einstein: His Life and Universe hit bookstands yesterday and promises to be a bestseller.…
Pope Benedict on Iraq
In the context of his Urbi et Orbi address on Easter Sunday, Pope Benedict observed that “nothing…
The Fall of Rome: Season Two
What was perhaps the most pro-Christian show on television did not have a single Christian character in…
Good Friday 2007
“Through Mary he received his humanity, and in receiving his humanity received humanity itself. Which is to…
Notes from Underground
A word in your ear ¯A well-known physicist told me that a popular blogger told him that…
God and Man in Translation
The Passion account read at Mass on Palm Sunday this year was taken from the Gospel of…
That Motu Proprio
Having apparently gone on a silent retreat during Lent, Pope Benedict’s long-rumored motu proprio on the Latin…
Dodging One Bullet, Shot with Another
Poor Tony Judt. The much-published author of such books as Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945…
Dutch Euthanasia
In his book Seduced by Death , Herbert Hendin reported that one reason the Dutch people have…
Briefly Noted 179
My Life With the Saints by James Martin, S.J. Loyola Press, 411 pages, $22.95 An account of…
Letters—April 2007
The Truth About Altruism In his review of The Language of God (December 2006), Stephen Barr seems…
The Argument
Our priest exulted, “How wonderful His ways,” / then climbed his pulpit’s Calvary. The tide...
