American Politics
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Freakish Belonging
Michael Alig was paroled this May into the world he helped invent. Starting in the summer of…
Tragic Hero
Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel’s Soul by daniel gordis ?schocken, 295 pages, $27.95 In 1981, at…
How to Succeed In Politics As a Businessman By Really Trying
A certain Georgia Senate seat has a strange and revealing recent history. 2008 was the ultimate Democratic…
Frank Wolf: An Appreciation
For the first time since 1978, Frank Wolf’s name will not appear on the November ballot in…
Blinded by Nostalgia
The twenty-first century has been a time of transition in American life. In our economy, our culture,…
Good News for the Naked Public University
Recently, an academic administrator informed me that passing judgment on others’ sexual orientation or religious beliefs was…
Of Michael Landon and Brittany Maynard
Michael Landon, the hugely popular television star of Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie, and Highway to…
Neither Prudence Nor Courage
While campaigning for the Republican nomination in the Iowa senatorial race, Joni Ernst had called for the…
Left, Right, Prudence, Principle, and Catholic Social Doctrine
A long-running battle between the so-called Catholic left and the so-called Catholic right concerns which political issues…
A Paradigm Shift in International Development
Someone from the international aid and development industry has some explaining to do. In an analysis of financial…
Ecclesiocentrism
Hauerwas: A (Very) Critical Introduction by nicholas m. healy eerdmans, 154 pages, $23 Good books on contemporary…
The New New Left
The New New Left We’re heading toward a meritocratic, libertarian-tilting consensus in America. That’s my reading of…
On a Bird
The swift perched, tweeting like a petty tyrant, Ruffling the feathers of self-love and power, And dropped…
Singing Lessons
As my daughter and I travelled home over the Wicklow Mountains, our voices echoed between the cliffs,…
A Pessimistic Case for Hope
Ten years ago this fall, it seemed for a moment like social conservatives might be ascendant in…
