American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

A Life of Being-in-the-World

John Schwenkler

The profession of philosophy lost one of its most distinguished members with the death of Hubert Dreyfus…

​Benedict Option

R. R. Reno

There’s something very right about Rod Dreher’s call to action in The Benedict Option: A Strategy for…

Metamorphoses

Amit Majmudar

A turkey, turnkey, turncoat, dovecote, dovewaddles and wavers and wings her way above,metempsychoses, metamorphosescrossing horizons, orisons, seasons,…

A Disunited Methodist Church

Paul T. Stallsworth

Just as the Roman Catholic Church was shaped, in part, by the culture of the Empire, so…

Tomorrow Belongs to “Meh”

David Randall

The first season of Amazon’s Man in the High Castle promised well. Yes, it departed from Philip…

The Real “Anti-Science”

Wesley J. Smith

When Bill Nye the Science Guy complains of a war being waged on science, he should look…

Hillary Clinton and Rich, White, Crooked Liberalism

Pete Spiliakos

The agonies of the Hillary Clinton campaign are rendered—mostly in boring detail—in the new book Shattered. Most…

Homage to a Christian Humanist

Kenneth L. Woodward

When John T. Noonan, Jr. died last week at the age of 90, the American people lost…

Kink is Not Conscience

Samuel D. James

Why are some conservative-leaning writers defending Larry Garfield? Garfield was until recently a major developer at Drupal,…

Al Gore’s Holy Anger

John Murdock

When asked how he dealt with hostile skeptics, Al Gore first advised against returning anger with anger.…

France is a Broken Country

Samuel Gregg

The results of the first round of France’s 2017 presidential election have predictably been portrayed as embodying…

Anti-Christianity in France

Jean Duchesne

On the day after François Fillon’s victory in the Republican primary in France last November, the leftist…

Evolving Toward Africa

Peter J. Leithart

We Westerners know how modernization works. Light dawns in the north and west and spreads Reason and…

The Papal View from the Global South

Paul Seaton

This Economy Kills: Pope Francis on Capitalism and Social Justiceby andrea tornielli and giacomo galeazzi, trans. by…

We Should All Be Grateful for Gorsuch

Pete Spiliakos

Liberals who are dismayed by the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch should cheer up. Things…