American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Protestants in Rome
Protestants are drawn to Rome, though we define ourselves against it. Strictly speaking, we do not go…
Briefly Noted
Tyll: A Novel by daniel kehlmann, translated by ross benjamin pantheon, 352 pages, $26.95 Daniel Kehlmann’s novel…
Phobos and Deimos
At the beginning of book VII of Virgil’s Aeneid, auspicious winds send the ships of the Trojan…
Catastrophism and Control
Épidémies: vrais dangers et fausses alertesby didier raoult michel lafon, 160 pages, €8.99 The Rules of Contagion:…
Sunflowers
Without warning, they appear, eachcluster separate from the next, goldbeads strung on strands of grass,glowing on the…
Strategic Long-Term Propaganda
Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold Warby duncan white custom house, 800 pages, $32.50 In…
Spiritual Communion
During the Diocletian persecution, a group of North African Christians were brought to trial in Carthage for…
Truth and Religious Liberty
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
My hospital, like all hospitals throughout the country, has adopted new procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic. In…
Letters
Religious Freedom Matthew Schmitz is right that we should focus less on the need for a universal…
Ruby Throat
A hummingbird’s wings might beat a thousandstrokes a minute. The birds can swerve, hover,fly backwards and straight…
Thomistic Economics
Aquinas and the Market: Toward a Humane Economyby mary l. hirschfeldnharvard, 288 pages, $45 Economists make a…
Avoidance
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
In “Limits of Religious Freedom” (March), Matthew Schmitz says that we must recognize limits to religious freedom…
An Informal Establishment
Unlike most other supporters of same-sex marriage, Douglas Laycock has spoken out in defense of Americans compelled…