American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Dark Night of Mother Teresa
On October 19, 2003, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) will be beatified in Rome. During the three-and-a-half-year…
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The Future of Catholic Biblical Scholarship: A Constructive Conversation. By Luke Timothy Johnson and William S. Kurz,…
The Necessary Mother
The baby was extra clingy today. At eighteen months, Monica has just this week cut two of…
The Faith of the Founding
My colleague at the American Enterprise Institute, Walter Berns, has written that the philosophy of John Locke…
The West and the Rest:Globalization and the Terrorist Threat
In the terrorist age we have now entered, the nations of the West are confronted, for the…
Sexual and Related Disorders
“Years ago,” writes John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, “an old friend, now deceased, was…
San Francisco Sacred (II)
Several times during the San Francisco Opera’s (SFO) remarkable production of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking (which…
American Empire
Andrew Bacevich’s American Empire has to rank at or near the top of nominees for Most Frustrating…
Letter from Germany
There is no denying that German“U.S. relations were ruffled, if not rocked, by last September’s election. During…
San Francisco Sacred (I)
We do not customarily look to opera for moral edification. Examples abound: twins, separated at birth, reunite…
The Virtue of Hate
In his classic Holocaust text, The Sunflower, Simon Wiesenthal recounts the following experience. As a concentration camp prisoner,…
The Embodied Self
In the very first year of his papacy, Pope John Paul II planted a time bomb in…
The Hemlock and the Cross
In early July 1759, three friends met at an inn called the Windmill outside the German city…
Poetry(February 2003)
The Arts that sensuously address The raising of the consciousness Bloom in a spread of themes and…
Lincoln on Judicial Despotism
After the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education ordering the desegregation of…
