American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
God & Bertie Wooster
Suppose that words were all you had. Suppose the great edifice of Western civilization had collapsed around…
The New Europes
Year after year since the evil empire’s fall, the promise of Poland increases. If history is capable…
The Design of Evolution
Catholic theology has never really had a quarrel with the idea that the present species of plants…
October Letters
An Actual Buddhist Peter J. Leithart does not know what he is talking about in his article…
Hitler’s Mufti
In his 2004 book The Return of Anti-Semitism, Gabriel Schoenfeld declared that “the ancient and modern strands…
September Letters
More on War Paul J. Griffith’s analogy of the “just war” with the procedure for licensing drivers…
An Unworkable Theology
It is increasingly difficult to escape the fact that mainline Protestantism is in a state of disintegration.…
June/July Letters
The Science of the Mind It was good to read Paul C. Vitz’s article about “psychology in…
May Letters
Duel over Dualism Dualists hold that the human person consists of both a soul (or mind) and…
Realism
The world that welcomed the divorce Of word and thing is now outmoded. The two are one…
Briefly Noted 9
John Buridan: Portrait of a Fourteenth-Century Arts Master. By Jack Zupko. University of Notre Dame Press. 550…
Max Weber Goes Global
In the century since Max Weber published The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, the book…
Who Wants War? An Exchange
Paul J. Griffiths The intense debate in the United States since September 11 about the meaning, history,…
The Language of Belief
Faith of Our Fathers: Reflections on Catholic Tradition by Eamon Duffy Continuum. 187 pp. $16.95 Faith of…
Tsunami and Theodicy
No one, no matter how great the scope of his imagination, should be able easily to absorb…
