American Politics

Published a week short of his 92nd birthday, Joseph Ratzinger’s essay on the epidemiology of the clergy…

Americans, being somewhat exceptional in their sports (as in much else), may be unaware of the controversy…

Jay Inslee is running for president to save the planet from climate change. Most of you probably…

This essay is a response to “Against the Dead Consensus.” The philosophical premise of “Against the Dead…

Some two millennia ago, a ragtag bunch of nobodies learned what their tortured and executed friend, the…

When Paris was liberated from German occupation on August 25, 1944, there was no doubt in General…

The movie Unplanned, which tells the story of former Planned Parenthood clinic director Abby Johnson’s conversion to…

In 2017, Cardinal Donald Wuerl provided false and misleading information to the board of the Papal Foundation…

Writing nearly half a century ago (1970), the Italian Catholic philosopher Augusto Del Noce noted that I…

Mathematics is useful, and indeed beautiful: the thought of the infinite series of prime numbers is as awe-inspiring as…

Our country has a long tradition of official encouragement of religion on a non-sectarian basis. That tradition…

A revolution is taking place in Britain. Call it populism by default. To outsiders—and many insiders—the political…

The March death of eighty-five-year-old Cardinal Godfried Danneels, the famously liberal Catholic archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels and primate…

My home state of North Dakota just removed the respirator from a dying vestige of American culture.…

Though I have long and volubly condemned all forms of “web life,” I sheepishly confess to having…