American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Letters—October 2004
Personalism and Apologetics After reading Avery Cardinal Dulles’ article “The Rebirth of Apologetics” (May), one would do…
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Creative Tension: Essays on Science and Religion By Michael Heller Templeton 183 pp. $22.95 paper Michael Heller…
Our New Deal Nation
Our New Deal Nation James Nuechterlein For the Survival of Democracy: Franklin Roosevelt and the World Crisis…
To Be American
It hardly seems like all of eight years ago that Samuel P. Huntington gave us The Clash…
Traducing Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is one of the great souls of the age. He is also among its most…
The Necessary Amendment
Within the next two or three years, the Supreme Court will almost certainly climax a series of…
Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty
A great paradox of America’s constitutional order today is that judges have never been more powerful, yet…
Who Rules in Science? An Opinionated Guide to the Wars
Who Rules in Science? is a marvelous book that ranges from the most basic questions to the…
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…
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…
