American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Communion & Communio
Forty-four years is a long time and a lot has changed since the last Catholic ran for…
Ethics & Life’s Ending
Robert D. Orr: Feeding tubes make the news periodically, and controversies over their use or non-use seem…
Traducing Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is one of the great souls of the age. He is also among its most…
Religion and Democracy: A Necessary Tension
Many years ago, in 1965 to be precise, Irving Kristol, Daniel Bell, and Nathan Glazer were worried…
The Origins of the Final Solution
How, when, and why the Nazis’ decision to exterminate Europe’s Jews was made remains one of the…
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. Or so I was taught in grade school. Later, of course, I…
Hinduism and Terror
Since September 11, 2001, the world’s attention has properly been focused on the violence of Islamic extremism,…
Culture and the Thomist Tradition: After Vatican II
Tracey Rowland, Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne, Australia, has…
The Threshold of Verse
The Poetry of John Paul II-Roman Triptych: Meditations Translated by Jerzy Peterkiewicz United States Conference of Catholic…
The Catholic Reform
The Public Square The cover of the 150-page report of the National Review Board (NRB) is deep…
How Richard Rorty Found Religion
Richard Rorty’s Aversion to traditional religion and religious belief is well known. In 2000, for example, he…
When Theology & Rhetoric Embrace
A Tale of a Tub , published anonymously in 1704, was the first of Jonathan Swift’s great…
Hope and Memory: Lessons from the Twentieth Century
“Humanitarian bombs,” “ethical war,” and “surgical strikes””it is Orwellian Newspeak such as this, accompanying recent military action…
Alzheimer’s & Grace
The author of Psalm 71 begs the Lord, “Cast me not off in the time of old…
St. Benedict After September 11
Philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre closed his 1981 book After Virtue by posing what might be called the St.…
