American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Wojtyłan Fantasies, Revisited

George Weigel

For almost three decades the Catholic left has turned intellectual somersaults arguing that John Paul II didn’t…

Infanticide Becomes Justifiable

Wesley J. Smith

Fr. Richard John Neuhaus wrote that bioethicists “professionally guide the unthinkable on its passage through the debatable…

The Moral Depravity of Andrew Cuomo & Friends

George Weigel

Writing recently on women seeking the presidency and the “likability” factor in our politics, Peggy Noonan made…

A Gleeful Slaughter of the Innocents

Kari Jenson Gold

To Bishop Andrew Dietsche, Episcopal Diocese of New York: As an Episcopalian in New York City, I regularly…

Democrats Defending Life

Rubén Díaz

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

Evangelicals and Catholics Together

There has been a dramatic expansion of the abortion regime in New York State. A law passed…

After the End of Sacrifice

Peter J. Leithart

Is it possible for a Protestant to be opposed to liberal order? Can Protestantism resist the lure…

Renewing Human Rights

Mary Ann Glendon

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

The Caudillo

Peter Hitchens

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

Confession in America

Eve Tushnet

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

Bread Eternal

Jane Sloan Peters

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

Postnatural Intelligence

David Lloyd Dusenbury

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

The West Is Stirring

John Waters

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

The Church’s Bigger Agenda

Nathaniel Peters

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

The Courageous Honesty of Peter Steinfels

George Weigel

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