American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Cold Vulgarity
The promise of critical thinking often fails to deliver, as many commentators have shown. But as world…
In Persona Christi Capitis
In the wake of the McCarrick revelations and the release of the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report, I…
Paul VI and the Canonization of Vatican II
On October 14, 2018, Pope Francis will canonize Pope Paul VI as the 82nd saint among the…
Defining the Thing
This column is an appeal to poets—and to aphorists, headline-writers, comedians, songwriters, meme-makers, philosophers and anyone with…
Steve Bannon’s European Movement
Is Europe’s new populist movement exclusively a rightwing phenomenon, or does it seek to unite anti-establishment forces…
Reproductive Injustice
Trust Women:A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justiceby rebecca todd petersbeacon, 248 pages, $27.95 In Trust Women, Rebecca…
A Loving Ambivalence
The Controversy of Valladolid of 1550 was one of the great dramatic set pieces of the Spanish…
When Justice Fails
God has given the United States over to divisive blindness and stupidity. Americans watched Dr. Christine Blasey…
The Whole World Groans
St. Jerome, angry over the protracted Arian crisis and the apparent victory of the “semi-Arians” at the…
Rage Politics on the Left
What are we to make of the political knife-fight over the Brett Kavanaugh nomination? One thing to…
Oh Where Was God?
O where was God when all things fell apart;When with the fury went our hopes and dreams?We…
You Better Like It
Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics Is Destroying American…
Vice and Fire
A Song of Ice and Fireby george r. r. martinbantam, 5216 pages, $36.39 No English child will…
Hate Signs
I just passed a sign in a store window that says, “No Vacancy for Hate.” Well, I thought,…
The Imperial Conductor
Toscanini: Musician of Conscience by harvey sachs liveright, 944 pages, $39.95 When the first instruction manual for…
