American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Briefly Noted

Various

Methodism and Politics in the Twentieth Century by Mark Tooley Bristol House, 406 pages, $27.95 Perhaps Mark…

Rewriting the Social Contract

R. R. Reno

The social contract in America is coming undone, and it will be revised and rewritten in the…

Everyman’s Poet

Micah Mattix

Pity the Beautiful by Dana Gioia Graywolf, 80 pages, $15 Dana Gioia is one of those poets…

At Sea

Catharine Savage Brosman

We stream on color: blue, aquamarine, dove grey. To look straight down gives vertigo, but farther out…

The Flimflam Theater

Brian Doyle

When I was a boy I had a friend named Dennis McCann Who was totally and utterly…

Home Not Alone

Naomi Schaefer Riley

The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents, and the Private Toll of Global Competition by Katherine S.…

Evil Within and Without

Shalom Carmy

Demonic Desires: “Yetzer Hara” and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity by Ishay Rosen-Zvi University of…

Defending Religious Liberty

R. R. Reno

Notre Dame teaches physics and philosophy, and so does the University of Chicago. Both raise money, field…

Briefly Noted

Various

Dynamic Transcendentals: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty from a Thomistic Perspective by Alice M. Ramos Catholic University of…

The Holy Spirit Did Preside

Michael Novak

A newly married layman and graduate student, I found myself in Rome in 1963 covering the second…

Freedom By Association

Michael W. McConnell

In New York City, about one hundred and fifty churches and religious groups—many of them serving poor…

Boys Wanna Fight

William T. Cavanaugh

A History of Violence: From the End of the Middle Ages to the Present by Robert Muchembled…

Three Riddles by Saint Aldhelm

A. M. Juster

63 When bloody flooding killed the human race And brand-new oceans put man in his place, Except…

Cordially, Richard John Neuhaus

Randy Boyagoda

September 2004: Richard John Neuhaus was feeling tired and a little glum. This he had not expected,…

Ray Bradbury, the Pedestrian

John Wilson

In the month since Ray Bradbury died at the age of 91, a host of tributes have…