American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
The Papal Foundation & McCarrick’s Conflict of Interest
On July 28, 2018 the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had accepted Archbishop Theodore McCarrick’s resignation from…
The Synod on Youth: An Exchange
On September 21, Archbishop of Philadelphia Charles J. Chaput presented a critique of the Instrumentum Laboris for the…
The New Gulags
As a new teacher at Grove City College, I thought it appropriate to start my upper-level humanities…
Men of Lawlessness
St. Paul tells us in 2 Thessalonians that the Day of the Lord cannot come “unless the…
Friendship in a Time of Scandal
We embraced twice: once on his priestly ordination day and once on a city street—quick, kind. I…
The Kavanaugh Conundrum
Initially, the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh seemed to be a mere barometer, a neutral indicator of the…
Abortion on Trial
Artists these days are required to either be atheists or tacitly agree to not, in Alastair Campbell’s…
Shakespearean Meta-Politics
I take as my text Shakespeare’s Richard III. Shakespeare wrote two tetralogies of English history. The first…
