The New Colonialism

by Francis X. Maier

Hostility toward the Electoral College hints at a deeper impatience with our political process.  Continue Reading »

5 Nov 2020

Can the West Find Forgiveness?

by John Waters

The result of mass migration will not be civilization’s enhancement, but its destruction. Continue Reading »

19 Feb 2019

A Loving Ambivalence

by Helen Andrews

It is tempting to think of Las Casas as a voice crying in the wilderness, but in fact his campaign of denunciation brought him worldly success and the favor of the establishment. Continue Reading »

8 Oct 2018

Fanon’s Warning

by John Waters

Alienation and Freedom  by frantz fanon  edited by jean khalfa and robert j. c. young  translated by steven corcoran  bloomsbury academic, 816 pages, $29.95 In the ferment of the present moment, with its surging floods of migrants and its ostensibly gratuitous but historically . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2018

Catholic America

by Stefan McDaniel

Continental Ambitions:  Roman Catholics in North America  by kevin starr ignatius, 675 pages, $34.95 In The Good Shepherd, the 2006 spy film, mobster Joseph Palmi asks CIA agent (and stereotypical WASP) Edward Wilson an insolent question: “We Italians, we got our families . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2017

Evolving Toward Africa

by Peter J. Leithart

Modernity doesn’t have a single northern source. In some ways, the West is now catching up to Africa. Continue Reading »

21 Apr 2017

Editorial: Repenting of America 1492–1992

by The Editors

Congress has created the Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Jubilee Commission. To date, twenty-two states have established similar commissions to coordinate a wide range of activities celebrating the discovery of America. The National Council of Churches (NCC) is having none of it. In May the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 1990