American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Memento Mortimer
Many years ago Mortimer Adler took me to lunch at Antoine’s in New Orleans and introduced me…
Going to Pot?
It is safe to say that at some point in the not-too-distant future, America will confront the…
Pilgrim Meets Compassionate
(with apologies to John Bunyan) Idreamed that when Amoralist saw that he could neither make Pilgrim turn…
The Book of Marriage: The Wisest Answers to the Toughest Questions
The Book of Marriage undertakes to provide an overview of one of the greatest human institutions at…
American Satyricon
We live in what we like to think of as a very sophisticated society. International commerce keeps…
Evangelical and Catholic Together?
Among the many (of course) excellent items in this issue, there is Ralph Wood’s thoughtful and intelligent…
Letter From Ukraine
There is one remaining institution of the old Tsarist empire of the Romanovs: the Patriarchate of Moscow.…
The Names of Love
Plato was no friend of safe sex, and latex would not have changed his mind. In his…
The Vietnam Wars
Like Israelis and Palestinians eyeing each other suspiciously from adjacent hilltops in the West Bank, Americans who…
Will All Be Saved?
The question of universalism—whether all will, in the end, be saved—is perennially agitated in the Christian tradition.…
Putting Parents in Charge
Lincoln warned that the United States could not long survive half slave and half free. To which…
The Stupid Party
One of the reasons intelligent young people are drawn disproportionately to the left in politics is that…
Anthropic Coincidences
How important is the human race in the scheme of things? According to the Epistle to Diognetus,…
G. E. M. Anscombe: Living the Truth
G. E. M. Anscombe, widely recognized as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century, died…
Pride and Patriotism
A great many Americans, especially those of a certain age, cannot hear the German language being spoken—by…
