American Politics

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The Greatest Nation on Earth

David Bentley Hart

My remotest ancestors on this continent settled in Maryland in 1634, as titled freeholders under the sheltering…

Not2B.com

Robert W. Crawford

This is a choice—it’s not a tragedy— And we exist to help you get it done. Why…

Reasonable Faith by John Haldane

Ryan T. Anderson

Reasonable Faith by john haldane routledge, 224 pages, $39.95, paper In his 2004 book Faithful Reason, John…

Reaping the Wind

Susan McLean

The giants swing their triple arms or poise, frozen like hazmat signs, on every hill: alien prayer…

American Cicero by Bradley J. Birzer

Stefan McDaniel

American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll by bradley j. birzer isi, 230 pages, $25 Bradley Birzer’s…

The Ides by Stephen Dando-Collins

Edward T. Oakes

The Ides: Caesar’s Murder and the War for Rome by stephen dando-collins john wiley & sons, 288…

Patron Saints for Postmoderns by Chris. R. Armstrong

James Poulos

Patron Saints for Postmoderns: Ten from the Past Who Speak to Our Future by chris r. armstrong…

Short Measure

Mark Jarman

The hummingbird has lingered. A rhododendron blooms. But each night autumn’s chilly dreams Stalk through our bedrooms.…

Cancer Dog

David Yezzi

Her open wound accuses you. It leaves its traces in the corner where she sleeps. She sleeps…

The Weight of Smut

Mary Eberstadt

As the impressively depressing cover story “America the Obese” in the May issue of The Atlantic serves…

Olea Europaea

Leslie Monsour

The salty Peloponnese flood Of minerals and Trojan blood Is in this oily, briny fruit, Savored by…

The Twentieth Century in Photographs

Charles Martin

Different faces, formats all the same: A profile set beside a frontal view And nothing else included…

Vast Dangers in a Small Place

Hadley Arkes

In ordinary times, or in earlier days, when the judges were more clear-headed, the case of Christian…

Letters

Various

Uprooting Spirituality In his review of Rebecca Goldstein’s 36 Arguments for the Existence of God (“Lost in…

A Few Thoughts for Memorial Day

David Mills

Every Christian’s Homelands By Richard John Neuhaus We are servants of a disputed sovereignty. The psalmist declares,…