American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Fenton Returns
The Church of Christ: A Collection of Essays by Monsignor Joseph C. Fentonby joseph clifford fentonedited with…
Raw Stuff
The End of Eddyby édouard louistranslated by michael luceyfarrar, straus and giroux, 208 pages, $23 Liberal regimes…
Lama Sabachthani
Laid in a humble binof barley, not feed corn,tonight a Child is bornto save us all from…
The Ignoble Lie
During one of the more infamous moments in Plato’s Republic, Socrates suggests that the ideal city needs…
The “Medical Conscience” Civil Rights Movement
Until recently, healthcare was not culturally controversial. Medicine was seen as primarily concerned with extending lives, curing…
The Slow and Steady Shrinkage of the Humanities
Last month, I wrote in the magazine about how the humanities are shrinking at research universities through…
Memory, Identity, and Patriotism
The second volume of my biography of St. John Paul II, The End and the Beginning, benefited…
We Renounce the Old World
What They Saw in Americajames l. nolan, jr.cambridge university press, 2016, 299 pages I was twenty and…
When the F-Word Is Sadly Appropriate
My father—who could swear with the best of them—always told me that use of the f-word was…
I, It, Thou
Martin Buber’s classic I and Thou describes a doubleness in human life that is captured by two…
Summer’s Last Sting
Culture has odd ways of supplying spontaneous correctives, even when the vanguard of a cultural wave or…
Not Dead Yet
Dan Lipinski, one of the last openly pro-life Democrats in the House of Representatives, prevailed Tuesday in…
Liberalism as a Virtue
Congratulations to Hallam Willis for winning first place in our third annual Student Essay Contest. Here is…
Learning to Love Our Earthly Home
Congratulations to Trenton Mattingly for winning second place in our third annual Student Essay Contest. Here is…
Italy’s Rebellion
Identity, tradition, and religion have new prominence in Italy after the recent election. The Northern League, once…
