John Matteson reviews two books about World War I: “The World Remade: America in World War I” and “The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End.”
History
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Examining the American peace movement prior to World War I
Mark J. Davis reviews “War Against War: The American Fight for Peace” by Michael Kazin.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
“Frantz” may be the most Christian film you will see this year.
François Ozon directs a parable set in the years immediately following World War I.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
Why Bannon’s pessimism won’t protect the Judeo-Christian tradition
Trump may have given one restrained speech, but Steve Bannon still hews to a vision of America under siege.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
A brilliant 17th century nun is brought to life on Netflix
Sor Juana Inés found both tension and sustenance in her religious life.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
The fight for religious liberty is never going to end. We’d better get used to it.
The Bill of Rights has failed to protect religious groups from legal assault on a number of occasions since our nation’s founding. Can it happen again?
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
The dawning of America’s imperial ambitions
Leading those who believed it was America’s destiny to acquire an empire were Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts and Theodore Roosevelt, a newly minted war hero.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Russia needs a truth commission now.
The story of a corrupt president, Boris Yeltsin, and his successor, Putin, trying to reconstruct their country as a world power
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
The manhunt for a martyr’s killers
‘The Assassination of a Saint’ begins like a crime thriller, complete with a criminal manhunt.
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.