American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Judge William Pryor and Lee Silver
Judge William H. Pryor is on U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. I count him…
Bonus article available
As a special bonus for Columbus Day weekend, we’re making available here on our website a second…
Miller: Transgressive Art Pacified
Characteristic of postmodernist art is transgression, the idea that the artist ought to produce works that violate…
RJN: I.F. Stone
In this Sunday’s New York Times , Paul Berman has a thoughtful review of two books ,…
Correspondence
Farr Gone on Religion In response to Thomas F. Farr’s “The Diplomacy of Religious Freedom” (May): Before…
Culture of Death
Sacred Order / Social Order, Vol. 1, My Life Among the Deathworks: Illustrations of the Aesthetics of…
This Heartbreaking Court
Both sides in the culture war over abortion have been readying themselves for the decision of the…
Main Currents of Kolakowski
Few contemporary philosophers have works considered important by non-academics. Their intellectual pursuits, important as they are in…
Anderson: The Parable of the Good Soccer Mom
Democrats need to get religion, or so say political analysts in the wake of the 2004 election…
Miller: Well-Ordered Means and Ends Revisited
Eduardo Moisés Peñalver, who teaches at Cornell, argues in Commonweal that the genuinely Catholic vote this fall…
Powers: The Real Clinton Legacy
On the same day my husband applied for Social Security benefits, we watched the purple-faced Bill Clinton…
Hylden: Hope for the Anglican Communion
For the first time in recent memory, Anglican conservatives have something to cheer about. Ever since the…
George: Reply to Garnett
Mirror of Justice , a website for Catholic law professors, has been the forum for some exceptionally…
Reno: Benedict XVI and Islam
Whether or not one agrees with the pope’s historical analysis of de-Hellenization, he is surely right about…
RJN: The Pope and His Cultured Advisers
You recall those awful years of John Paul II’s authoritarian and repressive pontificate when the ailing pontiff,…
