American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Our Daughter Beside the Sea: Blue Hill, Maine
The seaside rock she sits on shines a blaze of purple shell and matte-glazed films of moss.She…
Letters – July 2024
The Catholic University Matthew Schmitz aptly describes “Biden’s Collegiate Catholicism” (April 2024) in two senses. First, Biden’s…
Faith and Patriotism in Hacksaw Ridge
The war film is one of the few genres where modern Hollywood tolerates overt displays of Christian…
Summoning the Heroes
WARSAW. John Williams, ninety-two-year-old laureate conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, has composed some of the most…
Restoring Virtue in Higher Education
The new core curriculum at New College of Florida, where I am employed, consists of two components,…
Authentic Grammar in Classical Schools
I regret to report that grammar schools no longer teach grammar. It is considered as retrograde as observing…
Making Men in the Blue Ridge Mountains
The gravel road wound through a valley, surrounded on all sides by mountain ridges covered in verdant…
Invoking John Paul the Great
ROME. Age certainly accelerates one’s sense of the passage of time. Well do I remember high school…
Harrison Butker’s Speech Wasn’t for Us
Consider a twenty-eight-year-old family man, a devoted Catholic, a handsome, celebrated NFL kicker, invited to offer words…
America’s Working Class vs Elites
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Batya Ungar-Sargon joins the…
The Miracle of a Baseball
“Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and…
Mere Priestesses
Controversy surrounds the disinvitation of Fr. Calvin Robinson from the closing panel of the Mere Anglicanism conference…
The Gardener
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.—L. P. Hartley While drums pounded and…
The Defrocking of Father AI
Father Justin was rightly defrocked within two days of his public debut. “Father Justin” was the name…
Stopping the Transgender Conveyor Belt
Almost everyone agrees that rates of transgender identification are skyrocketing, especially among young girls. But nobody seems…
