American Politics

Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. I have over the years discussed it with numerous…

The Huge Event of the Week, February, 20-25 An ominously huge event overshadows reality this week, and…

Elizabeth Bumiller, in the February 6 issue of the New York Times , reports on a speech…

There are many things that need to be said about the Muslim reaction to those cartoons in…

Theorists of public morality—from the ancient Greek philosophers and Roman jurists on—have noticed that apparently private acts…

These are troubled times for Jewish-Christian relations. In November, two influential American Jewish leaders, representing large swaths…

Promising and the Good by Guy Mansini, O.S.B. Sapientia, 173 pages, $21.95 Why do people today seem…

The current issue of the Weekly Standard carries an essay about the curious role Catholicism is playing…

The village atheist usually challenges believers in Providence to answer a couple of devastating questions. One of…

Say the word prudence to the ancients, and you would have named a virtue. Say it to…

One often hears it said that modern science has adopted a methodology that takes no account of…

Executing Justice Joseph Bottum’s prudential claim (“Christians and the Death Penalty,” August/September) that Christians must deny secular…

New Square is a small village in Rockland County, New York, less than an hour’s drive from…

“In Strong Terms, Rome Is to Ban Gays as Priests.” That’s the front page headline in today’s…

It happened again yesterday. I can’t imagine that any author is not pleased when people come up…