Publications

I’m Not Rappaport, written and directed by Herb Gardner from his stage play, takes its title from the old vaudeville…

Portrait of a Lady by Jane Campion has a very strange beginning. A bunch of contemporary girls, photographed in black…

Michael Cromartie talks with anonymous-no-more author Joe Klein about his fictional political tale, Primary Colors. Early in 1996, Random House…

  The debate on the future of the papacy and the Roman Curia launched this past June 29 by the…

Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet is a good example of Shakespeare killed by terminal hipness. It is remarkably clever, and…

The facts about immigration and cultures, says Thomas Sowell, don’t fit neatly into our current competing ideologies. “History,” writes Thomas…

dignitatis humanae – the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on Religious Freedom – is frequently described as an expression of Christian…

What is distinctive about the Church in the world? What does the Church ask of the world, and what should the world expect of the Church? Soul of the World is George Weigel’s exploration of the rich theological roots of the public witness of the Roman Catholic Church, especially during the pontificate of John Paul II, whose work has left a decisive imprint on the lives of nations and peoples around the world.

"Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s," said Jesus, "and to God the things that are God’s." What does this mean in a time and place drastically different from first-century Palestine? As more and more Christians from differing traditions exercise power in the political arena, what theological principles should shape their views of the role of government? Protestant and Catholic scholars of diverse views debate these questions in Caesar’s Coin Revisited.

John Paul’s proposal seems to be based on a judgment that the large institutional questions are, essentially, settled. If, under…

The environmental movement both echoes and challenges traditional Judeo-Christian views about humankind’s proper relationship to the natural world. Ten scholars and activists here explore–and clash over–some of the scientific, religious, moral, philosophical, economic, and political claims advanced by contemporary environmentalists.

To many millions of Americans—most particularly, veterans and their families—it remains a noble enterprise. As indeed it was, that necessary,…