American Politics

When Eleanor Roosevelt and a small group of people gathered at the behest of the U.N. in…

Franco: Anatomy of a Dictatorby enrique moradiellosi.b.tauris, 264 pages, $30 Not long after the successful Allied landings…

Confession: Catholics, Repentance, and Forgiveness in Americaby patrick w. careyoxford, 392 pages, $34.95 In the 2013 Joseph…

In the ruins of Ostia Antica, where Roman roads have disintegrated into a tangle of worn stones…

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus belongs to the literature of the uncanny. But the young Mary ­Shelley…

Some people make things happen; some people watch things happening; some people don’t know what’s happening.” This…

A number of America’s Catholic bishops care more about the Church’s public image than about the welfare…

Peter Steinfels’s long career in journalism included years of service as editor of Commonweal (from which perch…

Calls for Governor Andrew Cuomo’s excommunication have echoed across Catholic social media ever since he signed into…

I had not thought that victory in a good cause after a long campaign would make me…

As 2019 begins, one useful way to take stock of world events is to compare the outcomes…

What in the world is wrong with our leaders? This is a question twenty-first-century Americans must continually…

There was plenty to get angry about in the disgraceful behavior of media figures and celebrities in…

The morality of tyrannicide is not much discussed in today’s kinder, gentler Catholic Church. Yet that difficult…

Shame on our Catholic and conservative leaders. Many of them joined the cyber-lynching of their own young…