So what if Benedict XVI is resigning? The prolific Pulitzer Prize–winning historian’s new book, Why Priests?, asks whether we need the pope in the first place. Here he picks his favorite theological works.
Garry Wills is an emeritus professor of history at Northwestern University. His books include Why Priests? A Failed Tradition, Inventing America: Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America. His book Nixon Agonistes earned him a coveted place on Nixon’s list of political opponents.
What Pope?
In his campaign for the presidency, Obama said he was not against war, just against dumb wars. Yet he is waging and expanding the dumbest kind of war—and creating his very own Vietnam.
Why the quiet confidence of Obama is a reminder of the intelligent greatness of Lincoln.