American Politics

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Powers: The Party of Responsibility?

Elizabeth Powers

The Republicans seem to have lost the values voters in the midterm elections. William Saletan, author of…

Bottum: Christmas Reruns

Joseph Bottum

The first of our Christmas Reruns ¯writings on the season from our authors through the years. It’s…

Anderson: The Quiverfulls and the Future

Ryan T. Anderson

Perhaps you’ve noticed them, too. People have been talking about them throughout the web. Feministing.com described a…

Miller: Martino and High Stone Walls

Robert T. Miller

Vatican City, as most people know, is a sovereign state, albeit a very small one entirely within…

Sacramone: Review of Babel

Anthony Sacramone

In the biblical story of the Tower of Babel, the hubris of technological man, seeking to realize…

I Went In, I Knew Not Where

Rhina P. Espaillat St. John of the Cross

I went in, I knew not where / and stayed, not knowing, but going / past the…

Miniatures, 1996-99

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

In Twilight I well remember the very widespread custom, back in the South, of “twilighting.” Carried over…

Coplas: In Pursuit

Rhina P. Espaillat St. John of the Cross

In pursuit of amatory / adventure, hope bid me fly / and I rose so high, so…

Christmas in New York

Joseph Bottum

There was a woman screaming on Park Avenue, flecks of saliva spraying from her mouth as she…

RJN: The Pope in Turkey

Richard John Neuhaus

There are so many pieces to Pope Benedict’s visit to Turkey this week that one hardly knows…

The Witness of Dietrich von Hildebrand

John F. Crosby

Now that the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project has been founded with a view to republishing the…

Reno: Modern Art Revisited

R. R. Reno

Two recent trips to two very different art exhibits provoked some gloomy thoughts about our times. Earlier…

Miller: The Pope and World Hunger

Robert T. Miller

Speaking about the many people in the world who go hungry, Pope Benedict XVI says that we…

Smith: Saints and Singers

Wesley J. Smith

Like Fr. Neuhaus , I too was taken with the article “I’m Not a Saint, Just a…

Hylden: Schori’s Agenda

Jordan Hylden

No one thought it possible, but there is a wave of nostalgia sweeping through the ranks of…