American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
You Better Like It
Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics Is Destroying American…
Vice and Fire
A Song of Ice and Fireby george r. r. martinbantam, 5216 pages, $36.39 No English child will…
Hate Signs
I just passed a sign in a store window that says, “No Vacancy for Hate.” Well, I thought,…
The Imperial Conductor
Toscanini: Musician of Conscience by harvey sachs liveright, 944 pages, $39.95 When the first instruction manual for…
The Papal Foundation & McCarrick’s Conflict of Interest
On July 28, 2018 the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had accepted Archbishop Theodore McCarrick’s resignation from…
The Synod on Youth: An Exchange
On September 21, Archbishop of Philadelphia Charles J. Chaput presented a critique of the Instrumentum Laboris for the…
The New Gulags
As a new teacher at Grove City College, I thought it appropriate to start my upper-level humanities…
Men of Lawlessness
St. Paul tells us in 2 Thessalonians that the Day of the Lord cannot come “unless the…
Friendship in a Time of Scandal
We embraced twice: once on his priestly ordination day and once on a city street—quick, kind. I…
The Kavanaugh Conundrum
Initially, the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh seemed to be a mere barometer, a neutral indicator of the…
Abortion on Trial
Artists these days are required to either be atheists or tacitly agree to not, in Alastair Campbell’s…
Shakespearean Meta-Politics
I take as my text Shakespeare’s Richard III. Shakespeare wrote two tetralogies of English history. The first…
Thoughts on the Instrumentum Laboris
Over the past several months, I’ve received scores of emails and letters from laypeople, clergy, theologians, and…
You Are Peter
You may know this story, but it bears repeating. On October 27, 1984, Cardinal Jaime Sin of the…
A Letter From Young Clergy
This letter to the members of the Synod of Bishops on Young People, the Faith, and Vocational…
