American Politics
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Letters from the Vatican: #6
How can the success or failure of the Vatican “abuse summit,” which concluded yesterday, be measured? A…
Letters from the Vatican: #5
At the beginning of February, a month in which an intense, global media spotlight has been focused…
Sketches of Native America
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Presentdavid treuerriverhead, 512 pages, $28.00 In…
Letters from the Vatican: #4
“Grant, we pray, almighty God, that no tempests may disturb us, for you have set us fast…
Letters from the Vatican: #3
Grant, we pray, almighty God, that we may so follow the teaching and example of the Bishop…
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…
