American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Weak Lead Us to Reality
Summer in the Forest, Randall Wright’s documentary on Jean Vanier and his L’Arche communities for the disabled,…
Stephen Hawking, Surprised by Joy?
Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot got in trouble when she tweeted on March 14, the day of…
BDS Has Failed
I am a rabbi who is often asked how to improve Christian relations with Jews. I’m grateful that…
City of the Chosen
Welcome to Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138! We’re a college town, home to Harvard, MIT, and a very large…
Fenton Returns
The Church of Christ: A Collection of Essays by Monsignor Joseph C. Fentonby joseph clifford fentonedited with…
Raw Stuff
The End of Eddyby édouard louistranslated by michael luceyfarrar, straus and giroux, 208 pages, $23 Liberal regimes…
Lama Sabachthani
Laid in a humble binof barley, not feed corn,tonight a Child is bornto save us all from…
The Ignoble Lie
During one of the more infamous moments in Plato’s Republic, Socrates suggests that the ideal city needs…
The “Medical Conscience” Civil Rights Movement
Until recently, healthcare was not culturally controversial. Medicine was seen as primarily concerned with extending lives, curing…
The Slow and Steady Shrinkage of the Humanities
Last month, I wrote in the magazine about how the humanities are shrinking at research universities through…
Memory, Identity, and Patriotism
The second volume of my biography of St. John Paul II, The End and the Beginning, benefited…
We Renounce the Old World
What They Saw in Americajames l. nolan, jr.cambridge university press, 2016, 299 pages I was twenty and…
When the F-Word Is Sadly Appropriate
My father—who could swear with the best of them—always told me that use of the f-word was…
I, It, Thou
Martin Buber’s classic I and Thou describes a doubleness in human life that is captured by two…
Summer’s Last Sting
Culture has odd ways of supplying spontaneous correctives, even when the vanguard of a cultural wave or…
