American Politics

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It Ain’t Me, Babe

Stephen H. Webb

Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews edited by jonathan cottwenner, 464 pages, $23.95 No matter how many albums…

The Code Breakers

Alan Jacobs

A few years ago, I wrote an essay in praise of the Harry Potter books that yielded…

Theocracy, Theocracy, Theocracy

Ross Douthat

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…

Richard John Neuhaus

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…

Richard John Neuhaus

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…

Anthony Sacramone

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…

Richard John Neuhaus

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…

Richard John Neuhaus

Less than a year ago, on July 7, 2005, four bombs went off in the London underground,…

JB: 5.5.06 The New Yorker…

Joseph Bottum

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…

Richard John Neuhaus

Here’s a happy spin. The headline in Catholic New York , “The Nation’s Largest Catholic Newspaper,” reads:…

A Christian People

Thomas F. X. Noble

A People’s History of Christianity: Volumes 1 and 2 edited by Denis Janz, Richard A. Horsley, and…

Misplacing Children

Gregory C. Popcak

Attempting social engineering at gun-point, the State of Massachusetts recently ordered the Catholic Church to place adoptive…

Principled Immigration

Mary Ann Glendon

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…

Richard John Neuhaus

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…

Joseph Bottum

Out in Orange County , they’re preaching fire and brimstone. “Rebellion, grave disobedience, and mortal sin,” the…