Publications

Nothing more graphically illustrates the cultural gap between the United States and western Europe than the recent flap over President’s…

Here’s a tale of two translations that doesn’t involve the liturgical tong wars. Permit me a brief but crucial Latin…

Every year at Christmas time, the Pope meets with the senior officials of the Roman Curia for a review of…

The fate of 19 illegal immigrants who died in Texas after being locked in a trailer was, of course, tragic….

The New Atlantis, Number 1, Spring 2003 AGELESS BODIES, HAPPY SOULS by Leon R. Kass The distinction between “therapy” and “enhancement”…

In 1984 the French scholar Gilles Kepel published a pathbreaking study of modern Islamist movements, issued the following year in…

The problem of technology—how to spread its fruits, limit its excesses, and save ourselves from its destructive side—ranks high among…

Bioethics has fast become a high priority for American conservatives. Yuval Levin asks why, and then ponders the paradox of…

The juxtaposition of “the force of law and the law of force,” a trope that got established in the Catholic…

Young priests are among the great signs of hope in the Catholic Church in the United States today. Eleven months…

Abstract: This paper is divided into four parts. First, it examines the basic economics of the family in modern America….

In his new poem, “Roman Triptych,” Pope John Paul II makes extensive references to the Sistine Chapel, which has a…