American Politics

Theorists of public morality—from the ancient Greek philosophers and Roman jurists on—have noticed that apparently private acts…

These are troubled times for Jewish-Christian relations. In November, two influential American Jewish leaders, representing large swaths…

Promising and the Good by Guy Mansini, O.S.B. Sapientia, 173 pages, $21.95 Why do people today seem…

The current issue of the Weekly Standard carries an essay about the curious role Catholicism is playing…

The village atheist usually challenges believers in Providence to answer a couple of devastating questions. One of…

Say the word prudence to the ancients, and you would have named a virtue. Say it to…

One often hears it said that modern science has adopted a methodology that takes no account of…

Executing Justice Joseph Bottum’s prudential claim (“Christians and the Death Penalty,” August/September) that Christians must deny secular…

New Square is a small village in Rockland County, New York, less than an hour’s drive from…

“In Strong Terms, Rome Is to Ban Gays as Priests.” That’s the front page headline in today’s…

It happened again yesterday. I can’t imagine that any author is not pleased when people come up…

Heavenly Torah as Refracted through the Generations. By Abraham Joshua Heschel, edited and translated by Gordon Tucker…

Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman’s Crusade by Donald T. Critchlow Princeton University Press, 438 pages,…

Fusion or Confusion? Joseph Bottum’s intelligent and clever essay on “The New Fusionism” (June/July) offers a possible…

Harriet Miers continues to be pilloried by numerous conservatives, and some of them are being quite nasty…