American Politics

“So,” asked Father Neuhaus, “why don’t they take out an ad in First Things ?” I explained…

It was standing-room-only on Monday night when Philip Jenkins delivered the annual Erasmus Lecture at the Union…

Tucked away in the back of last week’s New York Review of Books , Michael Sandel and…

Last month, Britain’s Telegraph ran stories telling of two elderly sisters who brought the British government before…

Christians look at creation and see the handiwork of the Lord. Nonreligious environmentalists marvel at what natural…

Judge William H. Pryor is on U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. I count him…

As a special bonus for Columbus Day weekend, we’re making available here on our website a second…

Characteristic of postmodernist art is transgression, the idea that the artist ought to produce works that violate…

In this Sunday’s New York Times , Paul Berman has a thoughtful review of two books ,…

Farr Gone on Religion In response to Thomas F. Farr’s “The Diplomacy of Religious Freedom” (May): Before…

Sacred Order / Social Order, Vol. 1, My Life Among the Deathworks: Illustrations of the Aesthetics of…

Both sides in the culture war over abortion have been readying themselves for the decision of the…

Few contemporary philosophers have works considered important by non-academics. Their intellectual pursuits, important as they are in…

Democrats need to get religion, or so say political analysts in the wake of the 2004 election…

Eduardo Moisés Peñalver, who teaches at Cornell, argues in Commonweal that the genuinely Catholic vote this fall…