Voices
Matt Malone, S.J., is the former President and Editor in Chief of America Media.
In All Things
A friend recently told me that he was participating in a new inter-religious initiative at a Catholic university in Europe I didn rsquo t envy his assignment Though vitally important in a world that is too often visited by the violent acts of self-avowed religious believers such dialogues can be
In All Things
Sergeant Jeremy Mendenhall of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is really mad He is the president of The Ohio Troopers rsquo Association and is busy working to defeat Republican-sponsored legislation that he says would gut Ohio rsquo s collective bargaining arrangements and seriously enfeeble the po
In All Things
It is a safe bet that the smartest guy ever to graduate from Jesuit-run Xavier High in Manhattan currently sits on the U S Supreme Court Even as a student his former classmates say Antonin Scalia was scary-smart first in the class of 1953 I was never cool though he once remarked That seems
In All Things
Those sounds you heard a few days ago turned out to be the exploding heads of Connecticut Democrats During his announcement last week that he would not seek re-election U S Senator Joseph Lieberman said that his politics were those of John F Kennedy a comparison that sent the state s liberals i
In All Things
Well into day five of Cable-gate the reaction of folks here in London is a collective ho-hum The Queen s subjects are buzzing but not about the wayward opinions of their American cousins nor even about London s rioting students or its knee-high paralyzing snowfall Treason is the word on pe
Politics & SocietyIn All Things
One of the amusing effects of this week's announcement that Britain's Prince William is going to marry his long-time girlfriend, Kate Middleton, is that every copy of the blue dress that Kate was wearing at their photo-op has disappeared. The shops here in London say that they sold out of the dresses within 24 hours of the latest event-of-the-century announcement. People understand why, of course, at least intuitively: everybody wants to be somebody and the somebody that everybody who's anybody wants to be this week is either partner in Britain's new royal couple.
In All Things
It is 7 a m British time and the results of yesterday rsquo s U S election have reached London There were few surprises one of those rare moments in recent American politics when the polls and pundits got it right The question on everybody s mind of course is what the results mean When folks
In All Things
Add this to the list of possible omens for tomorrow rsquo s election Neil Diamond is about to release a new album The gravely voiced soft rock sensation will release ldquo Dreams rdquo on Election Day Mere coincidence Perhaps Yet Diamond rsquo s anthology has provided an uncanny soundtrack
In All Things
As I write this I am en route to Belgium for three days of meetings on the thought of Rene Girard the French-American historian literary critic and philosopher of the social sciences Girard is receiving more and more attention these days from theologians among many others for his insights into
In All Things
The students hanging from the trees the adulating crowds the campaigner rsquo s hoarse voice calling for ldquo a movement for change rdquo mdash it all made President Obama rsquo s appearance last night at Ohio State look something like October 2008 For a moment the lsquo enthusiasm gap rsqu