American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Letters

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Never Retreat The whole history of the West can be told as a history of getting Augustine…

Interreligious Dialogue with Edge and Purpose

George Weigel

The evening of September 12, 2006, was, in a word, memorable. My wife and I were having…

The Limits of Planned Parenthood’s Storytelling

Leah Libresco Sargeant

Joss Whedon tells stories about heroes, whether they’re California teenagers slaying vampires, a misfit band of smugglers…

A Restless Mind, In Search of Truth

Paul Seaton

The news came as a shock, but turned into an outpouring of love and affection, reminiscences and…

What I Saw At The Debate Between Dissent and American Affairs

Matthew Schmitz

Down under the Manhattan Bridge overpass, young writers and editors dressed in black crowd into the offices…

Keep Christianity Weird

Joshua Kinlaw

Destroyer of the Godsby larry hurtadobaylor, 304 pages, $19.95 Three professors at a prestigious divinity school recently…

Bearing Witness from Prison in Indonesia

Bob Osburn

He is called Ahok, and until a few weeks ago he was one of Indonesia’s most powerful…

Time for a “Populist” Bioethics Commission

Wesley J. Smith

Donald Trump has been president for less than five months, but his plate is already full: Iran,…

Pick Your Poison

Pete Spiliakos

It is possible that Donald Trump has engaged in criminal activity while president. It is possible that…

The Art of Verbal Jousting

Dale M. Coulter

In the past few weeks, things blew up at Duke Divinity School. Paul Griffiths launched a salvo…

Catholic Lite and Europe’s Demographic Suicide

George Weigel

Ten years ago, after my meditation on Europe, The Cube and the Cathedral, had appeared in several…

Ivanka, Jared, and the Jewish Sabbath

Gil Student

The media frenzy surrounding President Trump has included reports about his daughter and son-in-law’s observance of Jewish…

The Saul Complex

Peter J. Leithart

Saul’s three sins (1 Samuel 13-15) correspond to the sins of Adam, Cain, and the sons of…

Tracing Church History through Old Newspapers

K. E. Colombini

There is a saying, variously attributed, that journalism is the first rough draft of history. There is…

A Hillarian Lesson for Church Leaders

George Weigel

Perhaps it was being “overcome with Paschal joy” (as the Prefaces for Easter put it). Maybe it…