American Politics

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Our New Deal Nation

James Nuechterlein

Our New Deal Nation James Nuechterlein For the Survival of Democracy: Franklin Roosevelt and the World Crisis…

To Be American

Richard John Neuhaus

It hardly seems like all of eight years ago that Samuel P. Huntington gave us The Clash…

Traducing Solzhenitsyn

Daniel J. Mahoney

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is one of the great souls of the age. He is also among its most…

The Necessary Amendment

Robert H. Bork

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

Paul O. Carrese

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

Michael J. Behe

Who Rules in Science? is a marvelous book that ranges from the most basic questions to the…

Communion & Communio

Richard John Neuhaus

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 & Gilbert Meilander

Robert D. Orr:  Feeding tubes make the news periodically, and controversies over their use or non-use seem…

Religion and Democracy: A Necessary Tension

Richard John Neuhaus

Many years ago, in 1965 to be precise, Irving Kristol, Daniel Bell, and Nathan Glazer were worried…

The Origins of the Final Solution

William D. Rubinstein

How, when, and why the Nazis’ decision to exterminate Europe’s Jews was made remains one of the…

Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation

George McKenna

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. Or so I was taught in grade school. Later, of course, I…

Hinduism and Terror

Paul Marshall

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

Douglas A. Ollivant

Tracey Rowland, Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne, Australia, has…

The Threshold of Verse

Joseph Bottum

The Poetry of John Paul II-Roman Triptych: Meditations Translated by Jerzy Peterkiewicz United States Conference of Catholic…

The Catholic Reform

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square The cover of the 150-page report of the National Review Board (NRB) is deep…