American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Mortal Frames

J. Todd Billings

A Time to Keep: Theology, Mortality, and the Shape of a Human Lifeby ephraim radnerbaylor, 304 pages,…

Nuanced Patriotism

Allen C. Guelzo

I love my country – I fear my government. I first saw that mantra as a bumper sticker…

The Savor of Science

Shalom Carmy

Can people who are not scientists find a path to God through casual study of the physical…

Learning From Luther

Carl R. Trueman

The Making of Martin Lutherby richard rexprinceton, 296 pages, $27.95 1517: Martin Luther and the Invention of…

The Smell of Death

R. R. Reno

The smell of death surrounds us. Ten dead in a school in Houston, Texas. Seventeen dead in…

Grace Under Pressure

George Weigel

A chapter in a remarkable American and Catholic life will close on June 6, when Abbot Thomas…

Humanities and Communities

Nathan Nielson

We communicate more today than at any time in history. Social media platforms, online fora, video chats,…

The Catholic Novel: A Footnote

John Wilson

You may recall the conversation, the debate, the brouhaha over Catholic fiction that took place several years…

Shadow Show

Peter Wood

In the last fifty years, Artemisia Gentileschi has risen to new eminence. She originally gained fame among…

Foster Care Fanaticism in Philadelphia

Darel E. Paul

Like all major American cities, the City of Philadelphia contracts with private non-profit organizations to provide foster…

The Benedict Option and Mediating Structures

Dale M. Coulter

It has been just over a year since Rod Dreher published The Benedict Option as a prescription…

Justin Trudeau and the Dictatorship of Relativism

George Weigel

You’ve probably never heard of the Waupoos Family Farm. I hadn’t either, until I met some folks…

A New Story for a New America

Jose Gomez

Archbishop José H. Gomez delivered the 129th Annual Commencement Address at the Catholic University of America in…

The New Divide in American Politics

Mark Movsesian

In the 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville noticed something about American politics that astonished him: A divide between…

What Happens in Germany

Charles J. Chaput

In The Making of Martin Luther, the Cambridge scholar Richard Rex notes that 1518, not 1517, marks…