American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Newman on the Personal
There immediately follows a piece of vintage Newmanian satire. He imagines the division of mind that is…
Your Word Is Truth
In the spring of 1994, a group of Roman Catholics and evangelical Protestants issued a much-discussed statement,…
Stem Cells and False Hopes
We have all witnessed the transforming power of hope—the focus and sustenance hope provides when strength and…
Dixie, U.S.A.
I went in search of Dixie, and discovered that I could find only traces of it. On…
Listening to Pacifists
In the First Things editorial “In a Time of War” (December 2001), the Editors argued that pacifists…
The Adversarial Courts
In November 1996, we published a symposium, “The End of Democracy?”, on what we called “the judicial…
Medieval Children
Nicholas Orme, a professor of history at Exeter University in Great Britain, has published more than a…
The Second Tablet Project
assurance which transcends what human reason can find out on its own—no human being dares to face…
Goldhagen v. Pius XII
Tendentious attacks on Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli) are nothing new. Indeed, they have become commonplace. Yet…
Films of the Spirit
It is a truth seldom acknowledged that the most delightful art is also the most didactic. Jane…
God’s Justice and Ours
Before proceeding to discuss the morality of capital punishment, I want to make clear that my views…
“Instinctive Repugnance”
The Jewish“Christian dialogue of recent decades is a new thing that stands in sharp contrast to the…
Keeping the Faith
In a way no one anticipated, George W. Bush has shifted the national debate about the role…
Standing at Attention
It seems we haven’t heard the voices of soldiers for a very long time. Not these voices,…
Purgatory for Everyone
A few years ago, the journalist Philip Nobile wrote an article near the first anniversary of the…
