Publications

In late December 1959, Senator John F. Kennedy was annoyed by a news report that he was committed to running…

**Over the course of four days this week, Dinesh D’Souza has been responding at NRO to conservative critics of his…

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for GodBy Carl Sagan, Penguin Press, $27.95, 284 pages….

Time magazine’s April 20, 1962, cover story on Karl Barth announced that the great Swiss theologian would visit the United…

There’s an Anglican church, St. Luke’s, a few blocks up Old Georgetown Road from my parish in the Maryland suburbs…

A few years ago Al Gore, then dressed in his natural-hued attire, would have been out of place among the Hollywood elite,…

About nine months ago, a reporter from  the Italian Catholic newspaper Avvenire called and asked whether the rash of “atheist…

Before the gossamer threads of mythology being woven around the memory of the late Father Robert Drinan, S.J., harden into…

Annihilation from Within: The Ultimate Threat to Nations by Fred Charles Iklé (Columbia, 142 pp., $24.50) Fear and trembling about…

Amidst the clang and symbolism of the new Democratic Congress’s first month, between the hundred-hour marathon and the posturing about…

Call me skeptical, but I suspect that what my friend Joseph Bottum christened “The Pius War” will never be resolved….

Part I of this essay is available here. For the greater part of human history, almost every society has been…