American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Liberalism and Catholicism

Robert Benne

Free Persons and the Common Good by michael novak madison books, 244 pages, $17.95 A number of…

The Closed Mind of Arthur Schlesinger

David Novak

Arthur Schlesinger Jr.’s widely noticed essay in the New York Times Book Review last summer, “The Opening…

Modernism & Its Consequences

John P. Sisk

Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by modris ecksteins houghton…

A Culture of Poverty?

Don Wycliff

I hadn’t thought of Jerry Carter for at least five years. I probably wouldn’t have thought of…

Catholicism in America

Ralph McInerny

Catholicism and the Renewal of American Democracy by george weigel paulist press, 218 pages, $11.95 Forty years…

Reflections on the Flag-Burning Case

Mary Ann Glendon

One of my jobs as a summer reporter for the The Berkshire Eagle during my college and…

Poverty and Public Policy

Paul Heyne

In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government by charles murray simon and schuster, 341 pages, $19.95 In…

The Capitalism & Morality Debate

Paul Johnson

The decade of the 1980s has proved to be an ideological watershed. It has been marked by…

Ut Pictura Poesis

Anthony Kerrigan

The St. Jo River whirling full around the South Bend rich and dark as a negresse en…

God’s Affable Principle of Cohesion

Anthony Kerrigan

I Merely the look of it, buttercup at the edge of the “Lawn Falls” where the water…

Old Havana

Anthony Kerrigan

. . . pongee-colored girls in white dresses the sun shone through in multiple haloes where they lay alongside…

Is It Legal—or, Who’s the Victim?

James D. Conley

One of the more intractable aspects of sexual politics today for conservatives and traditionalists is the emergence…