American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Transcendental Subject
At the time of the publication of Michael Sandel’s Liberalism and the Limits of Justice in 1982,…
Old Havana
. . . pongee-colored girls in white dresses the sun shone through in multiple haloes where they lay alongside…
The Return of the Catholic Whig
In his famous Postscript to The Constitution of Liberty, Friedrich von Hayek identified Thomas Aquinas as “the…
Editorial: Redefining Abortion Politics
Beginning with the Supreme Court’s Webster decision of last July, Americans were delighted, distressed, or simply puzzled…
Christians and Economic Development
The 1980s may well be looked back upon as a decade of intellectual reformation in the so-called…
The Closed Mind of Arthur Schlesinger
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.’s widely noticed essay in the New York Times Book Review last summer, “The Opening…
Liberalism and Catholicism
Free Persons and the Common Good by michael novak madison books, 244 pages, $17.95 A number of…
A Culture of Poverty?
I hadn’t thought of Jerry Carter for at least five years. I probably wouldn’t have thought of…
Modernism & Its Consequences
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by modris ecksteins houghton…
Reflections on the Flag-Burning Case
One of my jobs as a summer reporter for the The Berkshire Eagle during my college and…
Catholicism in America
Catholicism and the Renewal of American Democracy by george weigel paulist press, 218 pages, $11.95 Forty years…
The Capitalism & Morality Debate
The decade of the 1980s has proved to be an ideological watershed. It has been marked by…
Poverty and Public Policy
In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government by charles murray simon and schuster, 341 pages, $19.95 In…
Ut Pictura Poesis
The St. Jo River whirling full around the South Bend rich and dark as a negresse en…
God’s Affable Principle of Cohesion
I Merely the look of it, buttercup at the edge of the “Lawn Falls” where the water…
