American Politics
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The Great Terror
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repressionby stéphane courtois, nicolas werth, jean-louis panné, andrzej paczkowski, karel…
Capitalism and the Suicide of Culture
Not long before he died, the political philosopher Isaiah Berlin somberly summed up his, and our, age:…
Sex and the Married Missileer
At Minot Air Force base in Minot, North Dakota, a wife kisses her husband goodbye, knowing that…
Remembering Robert Wood
I am at a Labor Day cookout in Finneytown, Ohio, and all the food has been eaten.…
Letters
Natural Law and Metaphysics I was puzzled by many aspects of Phillip E. Johnson’s exposition of the…
What Can We Reasonably Hope For?
It is of course the case that only God knows what will happen in the next century…
Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII
Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwell Viking, 430 pages, $29.95. As Pius…
American Dreaming
Americans have always thought of their country as other and better than anyplace else. The most obvious…
Man and Machine
Man and Machine William A. Dembski’s “Are We Spiritual Machines?” (October 1999) challenges the spiritualistic materialism of…
The Holy Feminine
Catherine of Siena by giuliana cavallini, o.p. cassell academic, 163 pages, $60 cloth, $21.50 The Flowing Light…
The Unheavenly Urban Philosopher
Most of us, in our effort to make sense of life, begin at home: we try, in…
What Aquinas Really Said About Women
In several passages in the Summa Theologiae and elsewhere, Thomas Aquinas asserts that the inferiority of women…
Don’t Write About Race
The cardinal rule of writing about race is: don’t. There are several reasons why. First, it is…
The Bus Stops Here
It’s a sad but unavoidable question: Where did the civil rights movement go wrong? A cause that,…
Abraham Lincoln & the Last Best Hope
The beginning of the ninth century of the millennium now almost past was promising enough. The Congress of…
