American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The World Turned Upside Down
Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the Worldby tom holland basic, 624 pages, $32 After the Second…
An Affair of Things
Philip Larkin’s poem “Church Going” depicts his experience when, out for a ride on his bicycle, he…
Oppression by Indifference
Almost all Western democracies other than the United States provide public support to parents who wish to…
New York Remembers Fr. Neuhaus
Last week, New Yorkers might have glimpsed this Fr. Richard John Neuhaus quote displayed on the LinkNYC…
The Nondiscrimination Dance
Last month, eighth-grade students at Notre Dame Academy (a Catholic school in Toledo, Ohio) took a field…
How Christianity Changed Singleness
The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman Worldnedited by sabine r. huebner and christian laesnncambridge,…
Puritanism Then and Now
The Puritans: A Transatlantic Historynby david d. hallnnprinceton, 520 pages, $35 When Greta Thunberg, the teenage Green…
The Unreasonable Man
Churchill: Walking With Destinynby andrew robertsnnviking, 1152 pages, $40 Speaking to his friend Frederick Lindemann in the…
All Bright Things
At Chartres, we see the stained glass windows slumpfrom centuries of gravity, becomingthicker glass at bottom than…
Breakfield Road
(for Jake, 1989-2005) The briar draws a perfect bead of bloodto tender flesh as my dog pulls…
Kilmainham Gaol
We stand in crooked lines outside the gate,Where my new bride and I map out our day,As…
Epiphany
He tells himself a tale his grandmother told:Babuschka sleeps by the fire. Outside new snowLaps the window.…
Seizing the Crown of Thorns
As we watch the mostly white officials of the Democratic party pander to black Americans with talk…
Shrouded in Darkness
Complaints that public discourse is becoming more polarized and poisonous are generally unconvincing. With the exception of…
Why Rise of Skywalker Fails
Amongst Dickens’s many perfectly named characters, Thomas Gradgrind may be one of the most horrifying. Gradgrind, a…
