American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Avoiding Another Roman Fiasco In February
By peremptorily ordering the American bishops not to vote on local remedies for today’s Catholic crisis of…
Celebrity Theologian
Serious people on both left and right have wailed about the reality-show celebrity occupying the office of…
Getting Formation Right
I heard a bishop recently describe what his formation team does at his seminary: “They’re there and…
After Kavanaugh?
In the aftermath of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, the New York Times published an…
Sasse’s Case for Anti-Tribes
Them: Why We Hate Each Other—And How We Healben sassest. martin’s press, $28.99, 253 pages Republican Senator…
Confessions of a Catholic Whistleblower
In late July, I began giving internal diocesan documents to an investigative reporter in my hometown of…
Vatican Autocracy and the U.S. Bishops
As the U.S. bishops gathered in Baltimore on the weekend of November 10–11, it seemed certain that,…
Hour of the Wolf
Earlier this year I edited an anthology, Christ’s Body, Christ’s Wounds: Staying Catholic When You’ve Been Hurt…
Deneen Among the Liberals
In his much-discussed Why Liberalism Failed, Patrick Deneen identifies two revolutionary anthropological assumptions that constitute liberalism: first,…
The Rich Turn to the Democrats
Democrats won back the House of Representatives in the 2018 midterm elections thanks to strong gains among…
Mothers Against Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron deepened one of his rhetorical ruts this fall, again stating publicly that human…
A Century After the Armistice
I’m just old enough to remember when my elders still called November 11 “Armistice Day”—the armistice in…
In Defense of Sir Roger
Soon after Sir Roger Scruton was appointed to advise the UK’s Ministry of Housing as chair of…
Restoring Trust
On Monday, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops will convene for its 2018 Fall General Assembly—a…
The Midterms and the “We” Questions
The dust is still settling. Some races are so close that it may be days before the…
