American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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 New Populism
The Great Betrayal by patrick j. buchanan little, brown. 384 pp. $22.95 Readers of a certain age…
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…
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…
Good Restaurants in Gomorrah
We scratch where it itches and even the most casual observer of the Episcopal Church knows that…
Infanticide for Beginners
It was the issue of abortion that taught me to be suspicious of the word “reform.” It…
Roe: Twenty-Five Years Later
Twenty-five years ago, on January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States, in what numerous…
Not a Ghost of a Chance
Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by antonia fraser doubleday, 347 pages, $6.31 The…
