American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Why 42 Had to be Impeached Twenty Years Ago
Twenty years ago this month, I found myself seriously double-booked, so to speak. The editing of the…
The Case Against CRISPR Babies
A few days after Thanksgiving, a Chinese scientist named He Jiankui shocked the global community by announcing…
Protest of the Provinces
Founded in 1958, the French Fifth Republic has been one of the longest-lasting regimes in the nation’s…
A Grateful Christian
For all the wonderful stories about President George H. W. Bush and how he lived, the story…
The Dishonesty of George H. W. Bush
Like many Americans, I felt a warm patriotic pride yesterday when George H. W. Bush was laid…
Ideas Still Have Consequences
I worked on a congressional campaign this year that happened to coincide with my rediscovery of Richard…
American Legion and the Establishment Clause
Last month, the Supreme Court agreed to consider an important Establishment Clause case from Maryland, The American…
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…
After Kavanaugh?
In the aftermath of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, the New York Times published an…
Getting Formation Right
I heard a bishop recently describe what his formation team does at his seminary: “They’re there and…
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…
