American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Overheard
Walking on water, i.e., in the streets of Venice,I read its history in churches—Gothic,Baroque and Neoclassical, one…
Mary McCarthy’s Clarity
Catholic readers know the story cold. As a young writer, Flannery O’Connor accompanied Robert Lowell and Elizabeth…
I Know How to Be Abased and I Know How to Abound
I was more ashamed of my Goodwill clothes than of not speaking English when I first came…
Mac Donald, Peterson, Paglia . . . the New Sources
One of our editor-in-chief’s repeated contentions is that the Establishment no longer enjoys the confidence of the…
Cyber Self-Harm
On August 2, 2013, fourteen-year-old Hannah Smith of Leicestershire, England, hanged herself and was found dead by…
Ireland’s Constitutional Crisis
For nearly six years I have been involved in what has seemed a continuous political battle, loosely…
Remembering Zion
I offer a frigid smile any time people go into nostalgic raptures about the benefits of memorizing…
Looking Down syndrome in the Face
Before I met my son Max, I’d never spent much time with anyone who has Down syndrome.…
Homage to Don Briel
In the history of U.S. Catholic higher education since World War II, three seminal moments stand out:…
The Link Between Contraception and Abortion
I call the link between contraception and abortion an unpleasant fact, not only because both are unpleasant…
Why the Pro-Life Movement Will Live Long, and Prosper
We’re asked today to reflect on the future of the pro-life movement in an increasingly secular age.…
St. Charles Darwin
Evolution may or may not be a religion, as its critics aver, but it certainly has a…
The Deadly Legacy of Eugenics
We’ve seen it happen: A new assault on the sanctity of human life appears—say, infanticide being promoted…
Purity and Prejudice
The sexual revolution has a well-known masculine bias. Though feminists have won real battles, the outcome of…
How Anti-Trump Intellectuals Help Trump
John Maynard Keynes once wrote, “Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual…
