American Politics
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Letters from the Vatican: #2
Thanks in part to the hyperventilating language of last year’s Pennsylvania grand jury report (which followed hard…
Can the West Find Forgiveness?
World leaders’ interventions in the West’s current migrant controversy are rarely helpful. In February 2017, Pope Francis, speaking…
Letters from the Vatican: #1
The whole course of Christianity from the first … is but one series of troubles and disorders.…
Revolution, 30 Years On
It was like a graduation party. So says the historian Philipp Ther, who joined the protests in…
The Ever-Present Totalitarian Temptation
First circulated underground in communist Czechoslovakia in October 1978, Václav Havel’s brilliant dissection of totalitarianism, “The Power…
Methodist Madness
Duke University, which prides itself on being an elite and cosmopolitan institution of higher learning, has suddenly…
Our Poor
Fifteen years ago I wrote a little volume for the Acton Institute titled Inhabiting the Land. In…
Whose Midwest?
Finding a New Midwestern Historyedited by jon k. lauck, gleaves whitney, and joseph hogannebraska, 365 pages, $55.00…
Wojtyłan Fantasies, Revisited
For almost three decades the Catholic left has turned intellectual somersaults arguing that John Paul II didn’t…
Infanticide Becomes Justifiable
Fr. Richard John Neuhaus wrote that bioethicists “professionally guide the unthinkable on its passage through the debatable…
The Moral Depravity of Andrew Cuomo & Friends
Writing recently on women seeking the presidency and the “likability” factor in our politics, Peggy Noonan made…
A Gleeful Slaughter of the Innocents
To Bishop Andrew Dietsche, Episcopal Diocese of New York: As an Episcopalian in New York City, I regularly…
Democrats Defending Life
You should know that on January 22, 2019, New York State became the abortion capital of the…
Statement on the New York State Abortion Law of 2019
There has been a dramatic expansion of the abortion regime in New York State. A law passed…
After the End of Sacrifice
Is it possible for a Protestant to be opposed to liberal order? Can Protestantism resist the lure…
