American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Modern Pilgrim’s Progress
Saints & Sinners: Walter Railey, Jimmy Swaggart, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, Anton LeVay, Will Campbell, Matthew Fox by…
A Word on “The Competition”
The Public Square So it has come to this. Fifty-two years ago, the great Reinhold Niebuhr and…
Athens and Jerusalem, Again
President Clinton’s push to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military has been called many things:…
God and Evolution: An Exchange
I Howard J. Van Till Although the rhetoric Phillip E. Johnson employs in his article “Creator or…
The Homesick Homeless
Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy by jay tolson simon & schuster, 544 pages,…
Man in a Glacier
The mountainside failed. But when we saw that deep spot the dead sun came back heavy as…
Against Peer Fear
In response to many inquiries, we are pleased to report that Father Neuhaus continues to recover very…
Black Spruce
From a distance it looked like ordinary wood, a snuff-colored twig one might rake for burning. Surfaced …
National Service as Duty and Perk
I know a man who spends four or five weeks of every year in the army. He…
Contraries
Tell me everything you know, the sapient sage asked the seeker, and, since the former was, in…
The Skimpole Syndrome: Childhood Unlimited
Let me re-introduce you to Mr. Harold Skimpole. Skimpole lives in the pages of Charles Dickens’ Bleak…
Aceldama
Eternity is uncorrupted light; the world proceeds by interrupting sight, exchanging day and night. Half the acts…
Sex and the Single Life
What is it that Christians ought to say and do about the issue of sexual relations between…
Grandparents
Thinking of my grandparents, I stand for a moment on the curb of a street they often…
The World’s Oldest Virtue
Whenever there is a contest between etiquette and acknowledged virtues, etiquette loses. Hardly anyone would dispute the…
