Almost all major cities in the United States have experienced major decreases in violent crime over the past 25 years.
James T. Keane
James T. Keane is a Senior Editor at America.
Posted inFaith
To think that I saw it on 56th Street: a farewell to America House
It is a bittersweet day for all who lived and worked at the longtime home of America magazine.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
What would Jefferson say about today’s America?
What perils would Jefferson and Franklin warn us against?
Posted inColumns, Faith
What Canadian religious history can teach us about U.S. church attendance
Once grouped with the Irish and the Polish as a signally devout Catholic population, the citizens of Quebec are now quite the opposite.
Posted inBooks
Moody’s third volume of “Ezra Pound: Poet” delves into the poet’s fascist tendencies. James T. Keane reviews.
“We are more comfortable with Ezra Pound the madman, because we do not want to ponder Pound the monster.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Columns
Where have all the Catholic intellectuals gone?
If the Christian intellectual is dead, has a Catholic cousin survived?
Posted inColumns
Why bother with the humanities?
Economic advantage is not the only goal of higher education.
Posted inArts & Culture, In All Things
Bob Dylan’s church(es): Travels in the North Country fair
I am a firm believer in the power of place.
Posted inIn All Things
Bob Dylan in the key of Catholic
Charlie Brown is dead, but Bob Dylan is 75 years old today.
Posted inArts & Culture, Columns
Saying goodbye to legendary Dodgers’ broadcaster Vin Scully
Vin Scully, Southern California’s soundtrack to summertime, is retiring.