American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

All Flesh Is Grass

Cindy Erlandson

“When the ungodly are green as the grass, and when all the workers of wickedness do flourish,…

Fr. Rosica, Fraud

Joshua P. Hochschild

Earlier this month, journalists discovered that Fr. Thomas Rosica—an influential and (it was believed) media-savvy Catholic priest—had…

Letters from the Vatican: #6

Xavier Rynne II

How can the success or failure of the Vatican “abuse summit,” which concluded yesterday, be measured? A…

Letters from the Vatican: #5

Xavier Rynne II

At the beginning of February, a month in which an intense, global media spotlight has been focused…

Sketches of Native America

John Wilson

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Presentdavid treuerriverhead, 512 pages, $28.00 In…

Letters from the Vatican: #4

Xavier Rynne II

“Grant, we pray, almighty God, that no tempests may disturb us, for you have set us fast…

Letters from the Vatican: #3

Xavier Rynne II

Grant, we pray, almighty God, that we may so follow the teaching and example of the Bishop…

Letters from the Vatican: #2

Xavier Rynne II

Thanks in part to the hyperventilating language of last year’s Pennsylvania grand jury report (which followed hard…

Can the West Find Forgiveness?

John Waters

World leaders’ interventions in the West’s current migrant controversy are rarely helpful. In February 2017, Pope Francis, speaking…

Letters from the Vatican: #1

Xavier Rynne II

The whole course of Christianity from the first … is but one series of troubles and disorders.…

Revolution, 30 Years On

Dan Hitchens

It was like a graduation party. So says the historian Philipp Ther, who joined the protests in…

The Ever-Present Totalitarian Temptation

George Weigel

First circulated underground in communist Czechoslovakia in October 1978, Václav Havel’s brilliant dissection of totalitarianism, “The Power…

Methodist Madness

Charlotte Allen

Duke University, which prides itself on being an elite and cosmopolitan institution of higher learning, has suddenly…

Our Poor

Andrew M. Yuengert

Fifteen years ago I wrote a little volume for the Acton Institute titled Inhabiting the Land. In…

Whose Midwest?

John Wilson

Finding a New Midwestern Historyedited by jon k. lauck, gleaves whitney, and joseph hogannebraska, 365 pages, $55.00…