American Politics

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Walzer’s Paradox

Peter Berkowitz

The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions by michael walzer yale, 192 pages, $26 Michael…

Christian Duty in Ukraine

Cyril Hovorun

Although many Christians have suffered and even died in Ukraine, chur­ches across the globe keep silent about…

​Facing the Unborn

Richard Stith

An ultrasound video of an unborn child sucking its thumb makes a case against abortion that reason…

Briefly Noted

Various

Boswell’s Enlightenment by robert zaretsky harvard, 288 pages, $26.95 When James Boswell met Voltaire, he was not…

Kids Today

Naomi Schaefer Riley

Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids edited by meghan daum…

The Nation, the Church, and the Immigrants

Peter J. Leithart

Say what you will about Donald Trump. He has pushed immigration to the forefront of the 2016…

Segregated Sunday Mornings

Patrick T. Brown

This past spring, the renowned sociologist Robert Putnam made waves with a claim that American churches had dedicated…

Tourists at a Tragedy

Russell E. Saltzman

Vacation this year took us to Fredericksburg, Virginia, to see a ridge known as Marye’s Heights. It…

Response from Pew Research Center to “In Polls We Trust”

Alan Cooperman

The following is an official response from the Pew Research Center to Robert Wuthnow’s article, “In Polls…

Robert Wuthnow Replies to the Pew Research Center

Robert Wuthnow

The following is a reply by Robert Wuthnow to the Pew Research Center’s official response to his article, “In…

God and Donald Trump

Timothy George

The closest I have ever come to meeting Donald John Trump was during a visit to Manhattan…

Our Potemkin Life

Brandon McGinley

Several weeks ago, I was having dinner with friends in the town of Bridgewater, PA—a sliver of…

Renewing My Plea: Humanae Vitae after Obergefell

Luma Simms

Some months back, I made a plea—that the Church not yield on withholding the Eucharist from divorced…

We Need Institutions and Trust

Pete Spiliakos

Imagine you are part of that growing majority of Americans who do not watch Fox News, listen…

An American Virgil

Matthew Milliner

Among the more adventurous sallies in church décor in recentmemory is the dancing saints sequence at San Francisco’s…