American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Protestants in Rome

Joshua Kinlaw

Protestants are drawn to Rome, though we define ourselves against it. Strictly speaking, we do not go…

Briefly Noted

Various

Tyll: A Novel by daniel kehlmann, translated by ross benjamin pantheon, 352 pages, $26.95 Daniel Kehlmann’s novel…

Phobos and Deimos

R. R. Reno

At the beginning of book VII of Virgil’s Aeneid, auspicious winds send the ships of the Trojan…

Catastrophism and Control

Theodore Dalrymple

Épidémies: vrais dangers et fausses alertesby didier raoult michel lafon, 160 pages, €8.99 The Rules of Contagion:…

Sunflowers

Sarah Rossiter

Without warning, they appear, eachcluster separate from the next, goldbeads strung on strands of grass,glowing on the…

Strategic Long-Term Propaganda

Randy Boyagoda

Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold Warby duncan white custom house, 800 pages, $32.50 In…

Spiritual Communion

Nathaniel Peters

During the Diocletian persecution, a group of North African Christians were brought to trial in Carthage for…

Truth and Religious Liberty

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Ryan T.…

We Cannot Live Without the Lord’s Day

John Safranek M.D.

My hospital, like all hospitals throughout the country, has adopted new procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic. In…

Letters

Various

Religious Freedom Matthew Schmitz is right that we should focus less on the need for a universal…

Ruby Throat

Elinor Ann Walker

A hummingbird’s wings might beat a thousandstrokes a minute. The birds can swerve, hover,fly backwards and straight…

Thomistic Economics

Edward Skidelsky

Aquinas and the Market: Toward a Humane Economyby mary l. hirschfeldnharvard, 288 pages, $45 Economists make a…

Avoidance

Michael J. Adams

An avalanche of reckless thoughts keeps usApart. I’ll find excuses when, by chance,We meet between distractions. Let’s…

The Right to Be Wrong

Douglas Laycock

In “Limits of Religious Freedom” (March), Matthew Schmitz says that we must recognize limits to religious freedom…

An Informal Establishment

Matthew Schmitz

Unlike most other ­supporters of same-sex marriage, Douglas ­Laycock has spoken out in defense of Americans compelled…