American Politics

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Benevolent Autocrat

Helen Rittelmeyer

Salazar:The Dictator Who Refused to Dieby tom gallagher hurst, 360 pages, $34.95 The sinister character ­Salazar Slytherin,…

Eminent Boomers

Rod Liddle

Boomers:The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disasterby helen andrews sentinel, 256 pages, $27 Every…

Matthew 10:42

Jennifer Reeser

St. Patron’s School depends on your supportTo clothe the Native children, care for, feed,And to provide affection…

The Real Sherman

Allen C. Guelzo

The Scourge of War: The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman by brian holden reid oxford, 640 pages,…

When Campion Met Miss Anscombe

John Haldane

Edmund Campion (1540–81) and Elizabeth Anscombe (1919–2001) were among the most brilliant of their generations of Oxford…

What Does “Back to Normal” Mean?

Peter J. Leithart

Modernization involves multiple accelerations, says the German sociologist Hartmut Rosa in his 2010 book, Acceleration and Alienation.…

James Herriot and the Desire for Home

Jonathon Van Maren

Thanks to the new PBS show All Creatures Great and Small, there has been a surge of…

Epiphany at Cana

Peter J. Leithart

Early in John’s Gospel, Jesus attends a wedding at Cana of Galilee, where he turns water to…

Catholic and Classical

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Andrew Seeley joins the…

Catholic Coherence, Catholic Integrity

George Weigel

In 2007, the bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean completed their fifth general conference with a…

We Laugh, They Rule

Sohrab Ahmari

No columnist’s cleverness could do justice to the absurdity of Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s opening prayer for the…

Bring Back the Body

Sohrab Ahmari

What It Means to Be Human:The Case for the Body in Public Bioethicsby o. carter snead harvard,…

Papa Don’t Preach

Randy Boyagoda

The Lying Life of Adultsby elena ferrante translated by ann goldsteineuropa editions, 336 pages, $26 For about…

Quite Contrary

C. D. C. Armstrong

Here’s the Story:A Memoirby mary mcaleese sandycove, 416 pages, £20 Mary McAleese is known to some as…

Rethinking Religious Freedom

Peter J. Leithart

Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me:Why Governments Discriminate Against Religious Minoritiesby jonathan fox cambridge, 292…