Publications

During the last twenty years, American Catholics have been locked in a Fierce Struggle to shape not only the inner life of their church but the stance their church will take on civic and political questions.In the book George Weigel takes us to the center of that struggle, where the Left and the Right are rallying around their standards,.One side, he believes, is yielding to a Jacobin temptation of descriptive radicalism which obscures the authoritative message of the gospel.The other side is retreating to a disgruntled, world-denying posture, longing for the restoration of a bygone and largely mythical age.

The “surprise” jump in producer and consumer price inflation is not a surprise when you understand the political and economic…

It is now less than a year until the 1988 election, and we therefore end our self-imposed silence on matters…

  AMERICAN PURPOSE is not your basic holiday greeting card. But if it were, we would want to use William…

The Central American peace plan negotiated in August 1987 by the presidents of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and…

The debate over a treaty eliminating medium and short-range (INF) missiles in Europe will surely be another hot item in…

  AMERICAN PURPOSE has not been hesitant to criticize those voices in the American religious community whose approach to “work…

What if . . . ? is an endlessly fascinating historical game. What if the Confederacy had won the War…

On September 15, the U.S. House of Representatives passed, by a vote of 400 to 0, HR 192, a resolution…

  SIGNIFICANT CHANGES, INDEED. The Understatement-of-the-Year Award goes to James Le Moyne of the New York Times, whose analysis of…

Charles Krauthammer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning essayist of The New Republic, would have been a tough prosecutor had his agile mind…

In the spring of 1986, a statistically representative sample of 8,000 American 17-year-olds enrolled in U.S. history courses was surveyed…