Michael Sean Winters

Whither hope Last week I complained that Obama rsquo s inaugural address was all spinach and no hope and that it lacked an over-arching narrative His roll-out of the economic stimulus plan suffers from a similar problem The words may have been poll tested as Carrie Budoff Brown shows over at Pol

A reader has chastised us here at America for not offering a post about the annual March for Life It is a fair question I can only answer for myself but I have very mixed feelings about the March What I like about it is also what I don rsquo t like about It has failed utterly to make a differenc

With a flurry of executive orders and his personal attendance at the swearing in of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Barack Obama has alerted the nation and the world that his foreign policy will be vastly different from George W Bush rsquo s On Tuesday as Obama took the oath of office you co

In God We Trust may be the national motto but it hardly clarifies anything The more interesting question is In Which God Do We Trust and the inaugural festivities rendered a mixed verdict When Bishop Gene Robinson told the New York Times that he was horrified that earlier inaugural prayers

President Barack Obama rsquo s inaugural address was surprisingly leaden It did not soar like his Yes We Can speech after losing the New Hampshire primary nor did it chart his plans for governance as did his convention speech in Denver Most strangely it did not seem to capture the history of

This morning the Holy Father sent a telegram congratulating Barack Obama as he assumes the presidency The text was warm and encouraging and can be read here Let s hope the bishops on this side of the pond follow the lead of the Bishop of Rome and recognize the historic moment in which we are li

There may have been a miracle on the Hudson River last week but what is transpiring on the banks of the Potomac River is not a miracle In its way it is better than a miracle Miracles involve divine intervention that overturns the natural order of Creation The inauguration of Barack Obama is a h

George W Bush gave his farewell address to the nation last night and displayed in full force what is his least endearing quality his Manichaean view of the world The Manichaens wrestled with the fact of evil in the world and posited belief in two Gods one the Lord of Light and the other the Lord

President George W Bush thinks history will be kinder in its assessment of his foreign policy than current popular opinion It is difficult to see how Bush rsquo s reputation is tied up entirely with the Iraq War It is a commonplace to say that the world is well rid of Saddam Hussein and who can

President Bush rsquo s press conference the day was galling in many ways The man rsquo s inability to admit a mistake was stunning Hell I rsquo ve made plenty of mistakes in the past eight years How about you But nothing was more pathetic than his truculence regarding the federal response to th