American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Jewish Babies
New Square is a small village in Rockland County, New York, less than an hour’s drive from…
2005 December Letters
Executing Justice Joseph Bottum’s prudential claim (“Christians and the Death Penalty,” August/September) that Christians must deny secular…
RJN: 11.23.05 “In Strong Terms…
“In Strong Terms, Rome Is to Ban Gays as Priests.” That’s the front page headline in today’s…
RJN 11.07.05 It happened again…
It happened again yesterday. I can’t imagine that any author is not pleased when people come up…
Briefly Noted (Nov. 2005)
Heavenly Torah as Refracted through the Generations. By Abraham Joshua Heschel, edited and translated by Gordon Tucker…
The Great Woman Theory of History
Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman’s Crusade by Donald T. Critchlow Princeton University Press, 438 pages,…
Why Democracy Is Not the Answer
Whenever I hear about a “liberal-conservative standoff,” I feel the impulse, conciliatory soul that I am, to…
November Letters
Fusion or Confusion? Joseph Bottum’s intelligent and clever essay on “The New Fusionism” (June/July) offers a possible…
Harriet Miers continues to…
Harriet Miers continues to be pilloried by numerous conservatives, and some of them are being quite nasty…
God & Bertie Wooster
Suppose that words were all you had. Suppose the great edifice of Western civilization had collapsed around…
The New Europes
Year after year since the evil empire’s fall, the promise of Poland increases. If history is capable…
The Design of Evolution
Catholic theology has never really had a quarrel with the idea that the present species of plants…
October Letters
An Actual Buddhist Peter J. Leithart does not know what he is talking about in his article…
Hitler’s Mufti
In his 2004 book The Return of Anti-Semitism, Gabriel Schoenfeld declared that “the ancient and modern strands…
September Letters
More on War Paul J. Griffith’s analogy of the “just war” with the procedure for licensing drivers…
