American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Postnatural Intelligence
Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus belongs to the literature of the uncanny. But the young Mary Shelley…
The West Is Stirring
Some people make things happen; some people watch things happening; some people don’t know what’s happening.” This…
The Church’s Bigger Agenda
A number of America’s Catholic bishops care more about the Church’s public image than about the welfare…
The Courageous Honesty of Peter Steinfels
Peter Steinfels’s long career in journalism included years of service as editor of Commonweal (from which perch…
Excommunicate Cuomo
Calls for Governor Andrew Cuomo’s excommunication have echoed across Catholic social media ever since he signed into…
Bishop Bell Vindicated
I had not thought that victory in a good cause after a long campaign would make me…
The Contradictions of Liberal Globalism
As 2019 begins, one useful way to take stock of world events is to compare the outcomes…
Our Therapeutic Bishops
What in the world is wrong with our leaders? This is a question twenty-first-century Americans must continually…
Covington Catholic and Our Inferiority Complex
There was plenty to get angry about in the disgraceful behavior of media figures and celebrities in…
Squandering Moral Capital
The morality of tyrannicide is not much discussed in today’s kinder, gentler Catholic Church. Yet that difficult…
Covington Catholic’s Failed Leaders
Shame on our Catholic and conservative leaders. Many of them joined the cyber-lynching of their own young…
What’s Missing From the March for Life
I attended the March for Life last week but saw nothing of the episode that seems to…
Sin Aboundeth
The story of offshore finance is a familiar one. Individuals or companies want to avoid taxes, fines,…
More Trouble for the Little Sisters
For nine years Democratic officials have attempted to force the Little Sisters of the Poor to provide…
The New Anti-Catholicism
Senators Mazie Hirono and Kamala Harris recently pressured a federal judicial nominee, Brian Buescher, to distance himself…
