American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Ever-Present Totalitarian Temptation
First circulated underground in communist Czechoslovakia in October 1978, Václav Havel’s brilliant dissection of totalitarianism, “The Power…
Methodist Madness
Duke University, which prides itself on being an elite and cosmopolitan institution of higher learning, has suddenly…
Our Poor
Fifteen years ago I wrote a little volume for the Acton Institute titled Inhabiting the Land. In…
Whose Midwest?
Finding a New Midwestern Historyedited by jon k. lauck, gleaves whitney, and joseph hogannebraska, 365 pages, $55.00…
Wojtyłan Fantasies, Revisited
For almost three decades the Catholic left has turned intellectual somersaults arguing that John Paul II didn’t…
Infanticide Becomes Justifiable
Fr. Richard John Neuhaus wrote that bioethicists “professionally guide the unthinkable on its passage through the debatable…
The Moral Depravity of Andrew Cuomo & Friends
Writing recently on women seeking the presidency and the “likability” factor in our politics, Peggy Noonan made…
A Gleeful Slaughter of the Innocents
To Bishop Andrew Dietsche, Episcopal Diocese of New York: As an Episcopalian in New York City, I regularly…
Democrats Defending Life
You should know that on January 22, 2019, New York State became the abortion capital of the…
Statement on the New York State Abortion Law of 2019
There has been a dramatic expansion of the abortion regime in New York State. A law passed…
After the End of Sacrifice
Is it possible for a Protestant to be opposed to liberal order? Can Protestantism resist the lure…
Renewing Human Rights
When Eleanor Roosevelt and a small group of people gathered at the behest of the U.N. in…
The Caudillo
Franco: Anatomy of a Dictatorby enrique moradiellosi.b.tauris, 264 pages, $30 Not long after the successful Allied landings…
Confession in America
Confession: Catholics, Repentance, and Forgiveness in Americaby patrick w. careyoxford, 392 pages, $34.95 In the 2013 Joseph…
Bread Eternal
In the ruins of Ostia Antica, where Roman roads have disintegrated into a tangle of worn stones…
