American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
RJN: Europe, the Founders, and the Archdiocese of New York
Jewcentricity is a word that will probably not catch on, but Adam Garfinkle employs it to good…
Stith: Arguing with Pro-Choicers
Why do many pro-choice people find our arguments against early abortion not just unconvincing but absurd? Consider,…
RJN: The Debates Rage
You will not be surprised to learn that I am solidly on Ross Douthat’s side in his…
Anderson: An Archbishop Speaks Out
It is always encouraging to see episcopal leadership on the important questions of our day. Particularly heartening…
RJN: Neocons v. Theocons: The Sequel
Evangelicals have never forgotten, and for good reason they have never forgotten, that Washington Post story of…
The Truth About Lies
Truth: A Guide by Simon Blackburn Oxford University Press, 272 pages, $25 SIMON BLACKBURN’S ABILITY to be…
Beauty Is as Beauty Does
On Beauty by zadie smith penguin, 464 pages, $15 (paperback) In On Beauty, British writer Zadie Smith has…
Public Morality, Public Reason
A contest of worldviews in our time pits devout Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and other believers against secularist…
America in the European Mind
In recent years, there’s been no shortage of commentary on European anti-Americanism and the divide between Americans…
Poetry
The Dead Are With Us The dead are with us when they sing. Though we can’t see…
Hylden: Choosing a College
It begins in earnest when the viewbooks start to come in the mail. Mounds of them, innumerable…
RJN: The Times and the Church
Those sixteen words have taken a terrible beating in the past fifty years. For most of our…
Rutler: Words and Reality
Lewis Carroll anticipated the word games that demagogues play when he had Humpty Dumpty say, “When I…
Oakes: Nihilism and Iraq
Midterm congressional elections in the United States are barely two weeks away, and all the polls I’ve…
Barr: Dawkins, Unfortunately
A small price that I have paid for the privilege of writing book reviews for First Things…
