American Politics
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It Ain’t Me, Babe
Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews edited by jonathan cottwenner, 464 pages, $23.95 No matter how many albums…
The Code Breakers
A few years ago, I wrote an essay in praise of the Harry Potter books that yielded…
Theocracy, Theocracy, Theocracy
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion,Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Centuryby Kevin…
RJN: 6.30.06 Where did the storm…
Where did the storm over immigration come from? In conversations with folks who are in the thick…
RJN: 6.28.06 I know I reveal my…
I know I reveal my old-fogeyism when I say that I’m only vaguely aware of who Britney…
AS: 6.19.06 Some think…
Somebody thought The Passion needed a sequel, and not merely in the theological sense. What’s more, somebody…
RJN: 6.15.06 Ramesh Punnuru has kicked…
Ramesh Ponnuru has kicked off a very important discussion with his book The Party of Death ,…
RJN: 6.8.06 Less than a year ago…
Less than a year ago, on July 7, 2005, four bombs went off in the London underground,…
JB: 5.5.06 The New Yorker…
The New Yorker has noticed that Oriana Fallaci is not exactly what you might call a run-of-the-mill…
RJN: 6.01.06 Here’s a happy spin…
Here’s a happy spin. The headline in Catholic New York , “The Nation’s Largest Catholic Newspaper,” reads:…
A Christian People
A People’s History of Christianity: Volumes 1 and 2 edited by Denis Janz, Richard A. Horsley, and…
Misplacing Children
Attempting social engineering at gun-point, the State of Massachusetts recently ordered the Catholic Church to place adoptive…
Principled Immigration
Not for the first time, the world finds itself in an age of great movements of peoples.…
RJN: 5.31.06 I was honored to be…
I was honored to be asked to speak at the commencement of the Dominican House of Studies,…
JB: 5.30.06 Out in Orange County…
Out in Orange County , they’re preaching fire and brimstone. “Rebellion, grave disobedience, and mortal sin,” the…