American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Mozart Effect
It can cure backache. And asthma. And obesity, writer’s block, alcoholism, schizophrenia, prejudice, heart disease, drug addiction,…
The Future of the End of Democracy
If you want to know why the United States is in a constitutional crisis, a good place…
A Third Way?
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by edward…
How the Court Became Supreme
The past half-century has witnessed the rise to prominence of a constitutional theory that gives the U.S.…
What Aquinas Never Said About Women
If the first casualty of war is the unwelcome truth, the first tool of the discontented is…
Popes for All Seasons
God’s Representatives: The Eight Twentieth-century Popes by james bentleyconstable. 200 pages, £16.95 . Saints and Sinners: A History…
The Secularist Faith
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor By David…
Life, Law, and Suicide
The following excerpt is taken from a 1997 supplement of the New York State Task Force on…
The New Populism
The Great Betrayal by patrick j. buchanan little, brown. 384 pp. $22.95 Readers of a certain age…
Babel Undone
A few decades ago I published a short piece in Christianity Today about something I had observed on a…
Revolutionary of the Heart
Since John Cardinal O’Connor’s announcement at his Sunday Mass on November 9, 1997 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral…
The Catholic Church and the Holocaust
On March 16, 1998, the Holy See released a long-awaited statement on the Church and the Holocaust,…
What a Woman Ought to Think
This is the “hiring season” for those of us in academia, the time of year when faculty…
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted and proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United…
John Paul II on the American Experiment
In receiving the credentials of the Honorable Lindy Boggs as Ambassador to the Holy See on December…
