American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Better Citizens, More Faithful Catholics
When we speak about a nation’s culture, we mean the entire fabric of its common life, from…
Poets Who Kept Guard of the City
Poetry, the Polish poet Adam Zagajewski explains, springs from the negotiation poets routinely make between “the real,…
American Catholics and Catholic Americans
The calibrations and ruminations of sociologists all too often dress up as expert “findings” what we already…
Harvard’s Postmodern Curriculum
A few years ago, the academic mandarins in Cambridge embarked on a round of curricular revision. This…
Eric Clapton: Susceptible to the Truth
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to…
Sarkozy and Secularism
A few years ago, I was in the middle of giving a lecture in Paris about religious…
Marching Orders from a Postmodern Intellectual
In America we tend to have a division of labor. The university professors are dry and dusty…
The Catholic Fantastic of Chesterton and Tolkien
It is often assumed that G. K. Chesterton and J. R .R. Tolkien were reactionary, antimodern writers.…
As Justice Kennedy Said …
When Samuel Alito replaced Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court in 2006, observers predicted that Anthony…
January Letters
Defining Darwinisms At a time when many are attempting to foment a conflict between science and religion,…
The Poetry of Paradise
Paradiso by dante alighieri translated by robert and jean hollander doubleday, 944 pages, $40 With the publication…
Barzun at 100
Remember the culture wars? In light of September 11 and the continuing War on Terror, it seems…
We Are the State
The news this next year will be dominated by the presidential race. That is near to inevitable.…
Why Kim Jong-Il Should Fear AntonÃn Dvořák
Now that the New York Philharmonic has accepted the North Korean government’s invitation to perform in Pyongyang…
The True Cost of Doing Something About Global Warming
According to a news story from Reuters , a recent Tufts University study (available here ) says…
