We buried a good man Saturday, September 22. His name was Patrick McGuire, and he was in his office on the 84th floor of Tower 2 when the first plane smacked into Tower 1 of the World Trade Center. The McGuires had four children, and Pat served on the education committee at St. Vincent Martyr, … Read more
Introduction In the first phase of the groundbreaking report on the Catholic voter (November 1998), Crisis profiled that powerful, but notoriously finicky, voter bloc. The striking fact the report revealed is that Catholic voting patterns are not as hard to pin down as conventional wisdom once suggested—that is, once you remove voters who keep the … Read more
Ronald Regan never existed. Well, yes, he was president for eight years, if you want to get technical. And during that time America did see its largest peacetime economic expansion ever, a reversal of the decline that had afflicted its armed forces since Vietnam, and the beginning of the collapse of the Evil Empire. And, … Read more
Few sights are charged with as much promise and mystery as an Asian sunrise. From my window on Pokfulam Road, but two miles or so from the commercial heart of the Orient’s financial capital, dawn reveals a harbor whose essentials present a view remarkably unaltered by more than a hundred years of spectacular economic expansion. … Read more
As this article is being written from Europe, the events of just the first few days of this month provide a macabre endorsement of its theme. In Brussels itself, a group called the Fighting Communist Cells detonated its third bomb in less than a week. Over in Germany, the Red Army Faction blasted a French … Read more
It was as by a fifth-grader at St. Anthony’s that I was first introduced to the noble phrase “free press.” Brother Matthias had just quoted to the class Thomas Jefferson’s oft-repeated line about his preferring a free press with no government to a government with no free press, a statement, let it be noted, Jefferson … Read more