American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

A Tribute to Cardinal John O’Connor (1920–2000)

Richard John Neuhaus and Others

Today is the tenth anniversary of the death of Cardinal John O’Connor, whom Richard John Neuhaus called…

Review of Aquinas: A Beginner’s Guide

Ryan T. Anderson

Aquinas: A Beginner’s Guide by Edward Feser Oneworld Publications, 224 pages, $14.95 n Do not let the…

Quantum Leaps

David P. Goldman

George Gilder’s enthusiasm has always been infectious. In his recent book it is feverish. His 1981 bestseller…

Review of Breakwater

Len Krisak

Breakwater by Catharine Savage Brosman Mercer University Press, 112 pages, $30 n If classical meter really did…

A Dedicated Life

Gilbert Meilaender

Gilbert Meilaender writes a letter to his old friend Stanley Hauerwas . Dear Stan, I read your…

Bad Medicine

Joseph Bottum

A kind of exhaustion always settles in, murky and miasmatic, after battle. The nation’s conservatives foresaw the…

Review of Fly Fishing with Darth Vader

David Blum

Fly Fishing with Darth Vader: And Other Adventures With Evangelical Wrestlers, Political Hitmen, and Jewish Cowboys by…

Review of The Constant Fire: Beyond the Science & Religion Debate

Russell E. Saltzman

The Constant Fire: Beyond the Science & Religion Debate by Adam Frank University of California Press, 304…

I’ve learned to live in wise simplicity

Anna Akhmatova

I’ve learned to live in wise simplicity, To look into the heavens and to pray, And wear…

A King in Israel

Michael Wyschogrod

Israel is a Jewish state but has not succeeded in defining just what that means in a…

Heidegger’s Tragedy

Michael Wyschogrod

Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933“1935 by Emmanuel…

Six Years in Tibet

David Bentley Hart

Jesuit on the Roof of the World: Ippolito Desideri’s Mission to Tibet by Trent Pomplun Oxford, 320…

Do Movie Critics Matter?

Armond White

It’s always a good year at the movies, even if the great films can be counted on…

In His Image

Samuel Menashe

Oh we are many Some too fat Others so skinny Take us back

The Case Against Casey

John McCormack

The recent fight over taxpayer funding of abortion in the national health-care bill revealed not only that…