American Politics
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Boris and the Burqa
Boris Johnson, the wily faux-buffoon of British politics, has done it again, causing the twittering classes to…
The Pro-Life Movement Isn’t About Trump
Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church.” So counsels the demon…
Israeli Restoration
On July 9, Israel’s legislature passed “Basic Law: Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People.”…
An Open Letter from Young Catholics
Archbishop McCarrick’s predatory career would not have been possible without the culpable silence or active complicity of…
Revoice and a Vocation of “Yes”
At the end of July, in a barely air-conditioned Presbyterian church in St. Louis, Missouri, beneath soaring…
Intrinsic Evil and McCarrick
Imagine that a depraved tyrant is oppressing your country, driving its citizens into misery. You have the…
Cardinal Dulles’s Dubia
Let us allow another cardinal to be, in effect, the author of several dubia. Writing in First…
The Job of Ultimate Observer
The Ashtray (Or the Man Who Denied Reality)by errol morrisuniversity of chicago press, 192 pages, $30 Suppose that…
Pope Francis and Capital Punishment
In a move that should surprise no one, Pope Francis has once again appeared to contradict two…
Fridays Without Charles
Take my word for it: You don’t want to be around me at breakfast. I am not…
Historical Markers
My father stopped at every one of them,A need to know that drove us nuts and slowedOur…
Aristotle Returns
Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science edited by william m. r. simpson, robert c. koons, and nicholas j. teh routledge,…
Pagan Piety
Pantheon: A New History of Roman Religion by jörg rüpke translated by david m. b. richardson princeton, 576 pages, $39.95…
On the Baptism of Our Second Granddaughter
“And just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart…
CoWo, NoGrow
Back in 1998, at a theological conference, I heard a pastor (we’ll call himn Pastor V.) of…
