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JB: 5.09.06 Jonah Goldberg notes…

Joseph Bottum

Jonah Goldberg notes this front-page Washington Post story about the history of American immigration¯essentially claiming that debates…

RJN: 4.13.06 In Rome, the station church…

Richard John Neuhaus

In Rome, the station church today is St. John Lateran, the parish church of the Bishop of…

The Truth About Religious Freedom

Michael Novak

Just now, as Islamic nations wrestle both with new theoretical ideas and new public policies concerning religious…

MN: 2.23.06 The Huge Event of the Week…

Michael Novak

The Huge Event of the Week, February, 20-25 An ominously huge event overshadows reality this week, and…

RJN 1.26.06 And so, nine…

Richard John Neuhaus

And so, nine months into the pontificate, Benedict XVI has issued his first encyclical. (It is dated…

JB: 11.21.05 Reading by Osmosis…

Joseph Bottum

Reading by Osmosis You know ¯     My sister osmoted The Mill on the Floss ,     a marvelous…

“I’ve been looking for…

Richard John Neuhaus

“I’ve been looking for something not to like,” a reader writes, “and now I’ve found it. You’re…

Harriet Miers continues to…

Richard John Neuhaus

Harriet Miers continues to be pilloried by numerous conservatives, and some of them are being quite nasty…

An Indifferent Reconciliation

Geoffrey Wainwright

Is the Reformation Over? An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism by Mark A. Noll Baker Academic.…

Letter from Ty’r Glyn

Clive Watkins

I write to you from Wales, my last address, confirmed now in the idleness which age and…

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Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History 1585-1828. By Walter A. McDougall. HarperCollins. 638 pp.…

The Supreme Court Rules: 2004

Michael M. Uhlmann

The Supreme Court Rules:  2004 by Michael M. Uhlmann For those old enough to remember the way…

Conciliating Hatred

Steven D. Smith

These days, if you announce that the Supreme Court is doing politics rather than law you will…

Publick Religion: Adams v. Jefferson

John Witte, Jr.

The civic catechisms of our day still celebrate Thomas Jefferson’s experiment in religious liberty. To end a…

The Enemies of Religious Liberty

James Hitchcock

It is common for religious believers to lament the Supreme Court’s barely concealed hostility to the free…