American Politics
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Sentimental Frenzy
On the basis of a sixty-second clip, thousands of prominent Americans rushed to denounce the students of…
An Irish Dante
The Five Quintets by micheal o’siadhail baylor, 381 pages, $34.95 Sartre famously wrote that “hell is other…
Make Dharma Great Again
Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism by rajiv malhotra harpercollins, 488 pages, $26.99 Following the…
All Flesh Is Grass
“When the ungodly are green as the grass, and when all the workers of wickedness do flourish,…
The County Library
In former times it was a simple place,Where one could read without a blushing face,With thickly bound…
Fr. Rosica, Fraud
Earlier this month, journalists discovered that Fr. Thomas Rosica—an influential and (it was believed) media-savvy Catholic priest—had…
Letters from the Vatican: #6
How can the success or failure of the Vatican “abuse summit,” which concluded yesterday, be measured? A…
Letters from the Vatican: #5
At the beginning of February, a month in which an intense, global media spotlight has been focused…
Sketches of Native America
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Presentdavid treuerriverhead, 512 pages, $28.00 In…
Letters from the Vatican: #4
“Grant, we pray, almighty God, that no tempests may disturb us, for you have set us fast…
Letters from the Vatican: #3
Grant, we pray, almighty God, that we may so follow the teaching and example of the Bishop…
Letters from the Vatican: #2
Thanks in part to the hyperventilating language of last year’s Pennsylvania grand jury report (which followed hard…
Can the West Find Forgiveness?
World leaders’ interventions in the West’s current migrant controversy are rarely helpful. In February 2017, Pope Francis, speaking…
Letters from the Vatican: #1
The whole course of Christianity from the first … is but one series of troubles and disorders.…
Revolution, 30 Years On
It was like a graduation party. So says the historian Philipp Ther, who joined the protests in…
