American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Ethics & Life’s Ending
Robert D. Orr: Feeding tubes make the news periodically, and controversies over their use or non-use seem…
The Origins of the Final Solution
How, when, and why the Nazis’ decision to exterminate Europe’s Jews was made remains one of the…
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. Or so I was taught in grade school. Later, of course, I…
Hinduism and Terror
Since September 11, 2001, the world’s attention has properly been focused on the violence of Islamic extremism,…
Culture and the Thomist Tradition: After Vatican II
Tracey Rowland, Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne, Australia, has…
The Threshold of Verse
The Poetry of John Paul II-Roman Triptych: Meditations Translated by Jerzy Peterkiewicz United States Conference of Catholic…
The Catholic Reform
The Public Square The cover of the 150-page report of the National Review Board (NRB) is deep…
How Richard Rorty Found Religion
Richard Rorty’s Aversion to traditional religion and religious belief is well known. In 2000, for example, he…
When Theology & Rhetoric Embrace
A Tale of a Tub , published anonymously in 1704, was the first of Jonathan Swift’s great…
Hope and Memory: Lessons from the Twentieth Century
“Humanitarian bombs,” “ethical war,” and “surgical strikes””it is Orwellian Newspeak such as this, accompanying recent military action…
Alzheimer’s & Grace
The author of Psalm 71 begs the Lord, “Cast me not off in the time of old…
St. Benedict After September 11
Philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre closed his 1981 book After Virtue by posing what might be called the St.…
Art: A New History
Yes, it is possible to write a single-volume general history of art, if you narrow the definition…
Timeless Cities: An Architect’s Reflections on Renaissance Italy
In the moderately memorable 1997 movie The Edge , Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin portray characters marooned…
Publick Religion: Adams v. Jefferson
The civic catechisms of our day still celebrate Thomas Jefferson’s experiment in religious liberty. To end a…
