American Politics
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Caribbean Rhapsode
The great poet of the Caribbean, Derek Walcott, passed away at home on his native island of…
Make Hell Hot Again
I have a problem with hell that goes beyond squeamishness. The problem is one of inserting the damned…
Paradise Possible
Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America’s Most Radical Ideaby erik reecefarrar, straus and giroux, 368 pages,…
A Test for Classical Christian Students
“No more teaching to the test!” is the battle cry of the growing anti-testing movement in primary…
Teaching Submission After Trump
The University of Chicago does not support so-called trigger warnings. At least, that is what the dean…
Are Jihadis “Losers”?
When I first visited Israel in 1988, my friend Professor Menahem Milson, a distinguished Arabist at Hebrew…
What Are We For?
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, and…
Free Markets and Unicorns
In contemporary debates over economic policy, we often hear that government intervention in markets should be limited…
Butchering Shakespeare
The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park got unprecedented press this year for staging Julius Caesar as…
Mary Magdalene, Feminist Icon?
Tomorrow Christendom observes the feast of St. Mary Magdalene. The woman from Magdala in Galilee was a…
Putting Infants “Down Like Dogs”
The Charlie Gard tragedy has renewed public advocacy for legalizing infanticide. Writing in the New York Times…
On Healthcare, Don’t Blame Trump
The Republicans control the presidency and have majorities in both houses of Congress, but this unified GOP…
Romanticism of the “Lost Cause”
The ongoing conflict over the removal of Confederate statues in New Orleans, Charlottesville, and elsewhere has provoked…
The Cooler Cold War
The claim that “the Cold War is over” and that the West needs a “new paradigm” for…
Spadaro Contra Franciscum
Fr. Antonio Spadaro and Rev. Marcelo Figueroa have a recent item in the Italian Jesuit review La Civiltà Cattolica, complaining…
