American Politics
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The Election of 1800
Everything that makes American politics the best outdoor sport ever shows up in the presidential election of…
Standing Against the Human “Dignity Deniers”
God may not be dead, but considering the imago Dei in philosophical discourse and public policy certainly…
A False Choice
The performance of populist parties in Europe should be a warning for American conservatives. Those European parties…
Tocqueville in Arabia
Over the course of the last three hundred years, in broad swaths of the globe where Anglo-American…
Regensburg Vindicated
On the evening of Sept. 12, 2006, my wife and I were dining in Cracow with Polish…
Remember the Prisoners
Nobody criticizes us. We have no enemies,” Warden Burl Cain tells me as the servers load our…
The Poor Are Not Middle Class
Linda Tirado’s poverty was a horrible grind with no means of ready escape. “Why I Make Terrible…
InterVarsity Christian Ministry in Trouble for Acting Christian
To protect against discrimination, liberals increasingly seek to discriminate. News broke over the weekend that all twenty-three…
From Cain to Isis
The radical Islamic movement ISIS is more radical than Islamic. It is true, of course, that this…
How to Avoid Death Panels
It shows the level of suspicion people have for government and the health care system that many…
Prison, Purgatory, and Heaven
Several years of prison ministry have convinced me that there are substantial parallels between what we think…
Dogs, Divorce, and Pre-pups
Like, we didn’t see this coming? Pets are becoming the center of custody struggles among divorcing couples.…
Ferguson, Missouri
It pains me to admit it, but I see nothing new in the tragic events in Ferguson,…
The New Nonconformist Conscience
Mozilla’s Brendan Eich, the Miami Dolphins’ Don Jones, HGTV’s Benham brothers: 2014 has been a good year…
Politics and the Arts
Jed Perl warns in the August 25 issue of the New Republic of a new threat to…
