American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Fullness of Time
How long, O Lord? The question is posed repeatedly by the Psalmist. It continues to be posed…
The Verdict on Judgment
I Judge No One:A Political Life of Jesusby david lloyd dusenburyoxford university, 312 pages, $35 Who am…
The Challenge of Christmas
This article is part of our 2023 year-end campaign series, featuring reflections from prominent authors on why…
Has Hitler Won on the Left?
When is a crime victimless? When its perpetrators enjoy the status of victims, at least according to…
What Happened to the ACLU
When he was a young social worker in St. Louis, Roger Baldwin was briefly engaged to Anna…
Letters
Tarkovsky I very much enjoyed Armin Rosen’s essay about the Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (“Tarkovksy’s Sublime Terror,”…
When Docs Play Deities
With the God of the Bible having largely disappeared from public consciousness in Great Britain, the closest…
How to Kill a Literary Genre
The Novelist: A Novel by jordan castro soft skull, 208 pages, $24 Jordan Castro’s The Novelist: A…
Good Shepherds
Advent, which will begin in a little over a week, celebrates the coming of the Good Shepherd…
Imagining Death
How Then Should We Die?:Two Opposing Responses to the Challenges of Suffering and Deathby s. kay toombscolloquium…
A Drag Show at Notre Dame
Several departments at the University of Notre Dame, founded in 1842 under the patronage of the Virgin…
My Father’s Living Will
It is a haze of fog and low cloud at dawn and the kookaburras are wild with…
Shakespeare’s First Folio Turns 400
In 1632, John Milton published his first poem in English. Long before Paradise Lost had even been…
A Benediction for Mimi
A couple of hours after my wife’s ninety-eight-year-old grandmother had a stroke earlier this month, the family…
Fanon’s Seduction of the Left
Over the weekend, one of my friends from high school, a Harvard graduate, posted to Instagram an…
