American Politics
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Powers: The Party of Responsibility?
The Republicans seem to have lost the values voters in the midterm elections. William Saletan, author of…
Bottum: Christmas Reruns
The first of our Christmas Reruns ¯writings on the season from our authors through the years. It’s…
Anderson: The Quiverfulls and the Future
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
Vatican City, as most people know, is a sovereign state, albeit a very small one entirely within…
Sacramone: Review of Babel
In the biblical story of the Tower of Babel, the hubris of technological man, seeking to realize…
I Went In, I Knew Not Where
I went in, I knew not where / and stayed, not knowing, but going / past the…
Miniatures, 1996-99
In Twilight I well remember the very widespread custom, back in the South, of “twilighting.” Carried over…
Coplas: In Pursuit
In pursuit of amatory / adventure, hope bid me fly / and I rose so high, so…
Christmas in New York
There was a woman screaming on Park Avenue, flecks of saliva spraying from her mouth as she…
RJN: The Pope in Turkey
There are so many pieces to Pope Benedict’s visit to Turkey this week that one hardly knows…
The Witness of Dietrich von Hildebrand
Now that the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project has been founded with a view to republishing the…
Reno: Modern Art Revisited
Two recent trips to two very different art exhibits provoked some gloomy thoughts about our times. Earlier…
Miller: The Pope and World Hunger
Speaking about the many people in the world who go hungry, Pope Benedict XVI says that we…
Smith: Saints and Singers
Like Fr. Neuhaus , I too was taken with the article “I’m Not a Saint, Just a…
Hylden: Schori’s Agenda
No one thought it possible, but there is a wave of nostalgia sweeping through the ranks of…