The Tragic Logic of Central Authority
Ross Douthat reflects on the way in which globalization, the mass media, and participatory democracy make local control so difficult to maintain.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Cotton’s Court
Ralph Nader recently spoke at a university in the Heart of Dixie. We tried to build some bridges.
The Next Time You’re in New Hampshire
Now that GM stands for “Government Motors” who can love a Chevy? In many ways, seat belt laws paved the way for this transformation. Government straps me in, government keeps me safe.
Does Kauffman count as good Good Friday reading?
Fr. Michael Orsi reviews Kauffman's Luther Martin, and finds wisdom therein.
Out of the Fissure, Real Energy: A Response to God’s Economy
Perhaps out of these fissures and the current populist turmoil, someone might be able to craft a new, more coherent, and more promising Christian and Democratic coalition.
Christian Democratic Communities and Teleological States: A Response to God’s Economy
If your religion--or at least your concept of the moral norms of the civil order--lacks a notion of grace, it therefore also lacks a notion of gifts; all it can say is that some people are lucky, not that some people are blessed.
An Arch Needs Many Stones: A Response to “God’s Economy”
But how can such plural sovereignty be realised under the circumstances of this century? Who will guard the guardians, so to speak? How will the stones of the arch fit together?
George A. Panichas, RIP
George A. Panichas, literary critic and longtime editor of Modern Age, has died at the age of 79.