American Politics

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Bottum: Christmas in New York

Joseph Bottum

Another Christmas Rerun ¯this one from the new December issue of First Things . Shouldn’t you be…

Anderson: Peter Singer’s Animals

Ryan T. Anderson

Animal-rights activists are up in arms about a recent statement by Peter Singer¯a bioethics professor at Princeton’s…

JB: A Christmas Carol Revisited

Joseph Bottum

Another in our series of Christmas Reruns ¯writings on the season from our authors through the years.…

Bottum: PS Christmases Past

Joseph Bottum

Another in our series of Christmas Reruns ¯ writings on the season from our authors through the…

Ruiz: Jesus, Manly Man

Mary Angelita Ruiz

“Manliness is next to godliness,” ran the Los Angeles Times headline on December 7. The article examines…

Bottum: Comfort and Joy

Joseph Bottum

A second in our series of Christmas Reruns ¯writings on the season from our authors through the…

Novak: In Praise of Jeane Kirkpatrick

Michael Novak

Aristotle wrote that the criterion of good moral action is not a principle or a law so…

Powers: The Party of Responsibility?

Elizabeth Powers

The Republicans seem to have lost the values voters in the midterm elections. William Saletan, author of…

Bottum: Christmas Reruns

Joseph Bottum

The first of our Christmas Reruns ¯writings on the season from our authors through the years. It’s…

Anderson: The Quiverfulls and the Future

Ryan T. Anderson

Perhaps you’ve noticed them, too. People have been talking about them throughout the web. Feministing.com described a…

Miller: Martino and High Stone Walls

Robert T. Miller

Vatican City, as most people know, is a sovereign state, albeit a very small one entirely within…

Sacramone: Review of Babel

Anthony Sacramone

In the biblical story of the Tower of Babel, the hubris of technological man, seeking to realize…

I Went In, I Knew Not Where

Rhina P. Espaillat St. John of the Cross

I went in, I knew not where and stayed, not knowing, but going past the boundaries of…

Miniatures, 1996-99

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

In Twilight I well remember the very widespread custom, back in the South, of “twilighting.” Carried over…

Coplas: In Pursuit

Rhina P. Espaillat St. John of the Cross

In pursuit of amatory adventure, hope bid me fly and I rose so high, so hig that…