American Politics
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Earth Day and Easter
Jay Inslee is running for president to save the planet from climate change. Most of you probably…
A Proposal for Persuasion
This essay is a response to “Against the Dead Consensus.” The philosophical premise of “Against the Dead…
The Easter Effect Today
Some two millennia ago, a ragtag bunch of nobodies learned what their tortured and executed friend, the…
Notre-Dame, France’s Parish
When Paris was liberated from German occupation on August 25, 1944, there was no doubt in General…
Murder, Inc.
The movie Unplanned, which tells the story of former Planned Parenthood clinic director Abby Johnson’s conversion to…
How Cardinal Wuerl Misled the Papal Foundation
In 2017, Cardinal Donald Wuerl provided false and misleading information to the board of the Papal Foundation…
Benedict and the Scandal
Writing nearly half a century ago (1970), the Italian Catholic philosopher Augusto Del Noce noted that I…
Math Delusion
Mathematics is useful, and indeed beautiful: the thought of the infinite series of prime numbers is as awe-inspiring as…
A Nation Under God
Our country has a long tradition of official encouragement of religion on a non-sectarian basis. That tradition…
Britain’s Identity Crisis
A revolution is taking place in Britain. Call it populism by default. To outsiders—and many insiders—the political…
Belgium After Danneels
The March death of eighty-five-year-old Cardinal Godfried Danneels, the famously liberal Catholic archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels and primate…
Bring Back the Blue Laws
My home state of North Dakota just removed the respirator from a dying vestige of American culture.…
YouTube Revolution
Though I have long and volubly condemned all forms of “web life,” I sheepishly confess to having…
Giving the Boot
The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Rightby max bootliveright, 288 pages, $24.95 Not too long…
Allah’s Mercy and Wrath
God in the Qur’an by jack miles knopf, 256 pages, $26.95 Jack Miles, a former Jesuit seminarian…
