American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Born Toward Dying
We are born to die. Not that death is the purpose of our being born, but we…
The Great Terror
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression by stéphane courtois, nicolas werth, jean-louis panné, andrzej paczkowski,…
The Church and the City
Since the official validation of Christianity in the fourth century, ecclesiastical leaders have built places of worship…
Capitalism and the Suicide of Culture
Not long before he died, the political philosopher Isaiah Berlin somberly summed up his, and our, age:…
Sex and the Married Missileer
At Minot Air Force base in Minot, North Dakota, a wife kisses her husband goodbye, knowing that…
Remembering Robert Wood
I am at a Labor Day cookout in Finneytown, Ohio, and all the food has been eaten.…
Letters—February 2000
Natural Law and Metaphysics I was puzzled by many aspects of Phillip E. Johnson’s exposition of the…
What Can We Reasonably Hope For?
It is of course the case that only God knows what will happen in the next century…
Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII
Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII by john cornwell viking, 400 pages, $14.20 As Pius…
American Dreaming
Americans have always thought of their country as other and better than anyplace else. The most obvious…
Letters—January 2000
Man and Machine William A. Dembski’s “Are We Spiritual Machines?” (October 1999) challenges the spiritualistic materialism of…
The Unheavenly Urban Philosopher
Most of us, in our effort to make sense of life, begin at home: we try, in…
What Aquinas Really Said About Women
In several passages in the Summa Theologiae and elsewhere, Thomas Aquinas asserts that the inferiority of women…
Don’t Write About Race
The cardinal rule of writing about race is: don’t. There are several reasons why. First, it is…
The (Mis)Guided Dream of Graham Greene
Graham Greene was a great novelist of a special kind. Unlike many literary practitioners in this century,…
