American Politics

This is a very old genre of humor. The darndest things that children say have, I suppose,…

Euthanasia has been making a comeback in recent months, bubbling up again and again in little snippets…

Forty-five years ago John Courtney Murray, S.J., published his groundbreaking work We Hold These Truths, which he…

Near the end of Reproduction and Responsibility, the 2004 report of the President’s Council on Bioethics, comes…

Alexis de Tocqueville was born in 1805, traveled across the United States and some of Canada for…

An issue that is fast heating up and requires discerning moral judgment, although it will more likely…

Just now, as Islamic nations wrestle both with new theoretical ideas and new public policies concerning religious…

Did the United States really have a beginning that can be called its “Founding”? Can any society,…

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…