American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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...
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, /…
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. ...
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…
The World’s Oldest Virtue
Whenever there is a contest between etiquette and acknowledged virtues, etiquette loses. Hardly anyone would dispute the…
Saving the World
In the Fall 1991 issue of New Perspectives Quarterly , which is very usefully devoted to the…
St. Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years 1903–1939 by martin stannard norton (1987), 537 pages, $10.95 paper Evelyn Waugh: The…
Choice Trees
In primal garden / the tree / stands laden...
Homosexuality and the Moral Order
President Clinton’s decision to lift the ban against homosexuals in the military has opened a deep cultural…
Ignorant Armies
The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism by ronald l. numbers knopf, 458 pages, $27.50 Ronald L.…
Why That God Failed
Retreat from the Finland Station: Moral Odysseys in the Breakdown of Communism by kenneth murphy free press,…
