American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

A Methodist Appreciation of Benedict XVI

Paul T. Stallsworth

Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger became Father Ratzinger, then Professor Ratzinger, Archbishop Ratzinger, and eventually Cardinal Ratzinger, who was…

A Cruciform Vision

Casey Chalk

A Grain of Wheat: Collected Sermons of Father Leonard R. Kleinedited by christa ressmeyer kleinrncluny, 372 pages,…

Letters from Rome: #5

George Weigel

For God’s sake let us sit upon the groundAnd tell sad stories of the death of kings.…

Jesus the Holy Fool

Hans Boersma

Monks are fools. To be sure, some are more foolish than others. The most foolish are the…

How Faith-Based Colleges Can Challenge Technological Misuse

Selma Botman

A rash of articles has signaled the looming death of higher education as a consequence of ChatGPT,…

MacIntyre in Retreat

Edward Skidelsky

Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography by émile perreau-saussine, translated by nathan j. pinkoski university of notre dame, …

From Mecca to Rome

Samuel Sweeney

Joseph Fadelle was born in Iraq in the 1960s. During his mandatory service in the Iraqi army,…

2022: Our Year in Film and Television

Various

We asked some of our writers to contribute a paragraph about the most memorable films and TV…

The Child Tax Credit Should Promote Work and Marriage

Patrick T. Brown

Year-end flurries of legislative activity are a congressional tradition, and this year is seeing a supercharged version.…

The New Women’s Movement

Jonathon Van Maren

Women are launching a counter-revolution. Powerful female activists are fighting the transgender movement’s massive push to provide…

How to Be Critical

Ulrich L. Lehner

Do you remember when you toured college campuses and heard admission counselors and deans praise their school…

Churchly Interpretation of the Bible

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, R. R. Reno…

Dénouement

Jane Blanchard

When all goes ill instead of well,There is no remedy but love.Test after test, results do tellWhen…

Reactionary Shakespeare

Patrick Gray

Holding a Mirror up to Nature: Shame, Guilt, and Violence in Shakespeare by james gilligan and david…

Why I Went to a Catholic College

Veronica Clarke

I was seventeen when my father and I embarked on the long flight to Denver from Amsterdam,…