Norman Birnbaum is professor emeritus at the Georgetown University Law Center. He was on the founding editorial board of New Left Review and is a member of the editorial board of The Nation. His memoir, From The Bronx to Oxford and Not Quite Back, was published in January 2018.
Fifty years ago, Kennedy made a historic speech that brought America and the Soviet Union back from the brink.
There is nothing in Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio’s record to suggest that he will reform the Catholic Church.
There is nothing in Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio’s record to suggest that he will reform the Catholic Church.
The fate of the EU hangs in the balance.
The bishops want to put a stop to the nuns’ focus on social justice. Thanks to their second-class status within the church, the nuns have little recourse.
Joachim Gauck could offer too striking a contrast to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s own devotion to a politics of small compromises.
Christopher was moved, in his choice of objects of animosity, by an unstable mixture of calculation and conviction.
German Novelist Christa Wolf dies on December 1, 2011 at 82.
Christopher Lasch and his quest for the moral resources of the next New Deal.