American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Babel Undone
A few decades ago I published a short piece in Christianity Today about something I had observed on a…
Revolutionary of the Heart
Since John Cardinal O’Connor’s announcement at his Sunday Mass on November 9, 1997 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral…
The Catholic Church and the Holocaust
On March 16, 1998, the Holy See released a long-awaited statement on the Church and the Holocaust,…
What a Woman Ought to Think
This is the “hiring season” for those of us in academia, the time of year when faculty…
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted and proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United…
John Paul II on the American Experiment
In receiving the credentials of the Honorable Lindy Boggs as Ambassador to the Holy See on December…
Good Restaurants in Gomorrah
We scratch where it itches and even the most casual observer of the Episcopal Church knows that…
Infanticide for Beginners
It was the issue of abortion that taught me to be suspicious of the word “reform.” It…
Roe: Twenty-Five Years Later
Twenty-five years ago, on January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States, in what numerous…
Not a Ghost of a Chance
Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Antonia Fraser. Doubleday, 347 pages, $27.95. The…
Saving Liberalism’s Soul
The Growth of the Liberal Soul by david walsh university of missouri press, $39.95 On good liberal…
Episcopalians: The Leftward Center
The modern Episcopal Church is the oddest of churches: scrupulous about maintaining tradition in matters of worship…
The Unraveling of Scientific Materialism
In a retrospective essay on Carl Sagan in the January 9, 1997 New York Review of Books,…
Remembering the Riots
Of the various disasters that littered the 1960s, none was more deleterious in its effects than the…
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
The writers and filmmakers of science fiction have been bold in depicting what life will be like…
