American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Learning from Bodies

Nora Calhoun

The baby in my arms lacks the majority of his brain. He was born just fifteen minutes…

A Church for Exiles

Carl R. Trueman

We live in a time of exile. At least those of us do who hold to traditional…

Godless Mysticism

Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig

Living with a Wild God: A Non-believer’s Search for the Truth About Everything by barbara ehrenreich grand…

Divorce and Remarriage

Robert Spaemann

The divorce statistics for modern Western societies are catastrophic. They show that marriage is no longer regarded…

They Cry Out

Samuel Tadros

The Global War on Christians  by John Allen  Image, 320 pages, $25 The attacks began at 2:45…

A New Apologetic

Francesca Aran Murphy

The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss by david bentley hart yale, 376 pages, $25 David Bentley…

Living Room Blues

Stephen Kampa

I feel less lonely when I watch TV: The heartbreak and the healing both go quicker, And…

Neither Side Got What It Wanted

Douglas Laycock

On July 21, the President issued an Executive Order prohibiting government contractors from discriminating on the basis…

Will Doctors Be Forced to Kill?

Wesley J. Smith

The wailing and gnashing of teeth in some quarters over the modest Hobby Lobby decision has me…

Conservatives’ Mixed Message on Immigration

Pete Spiliakos

America has “bad-faith open borders.” We limit immigration but we enforce those limits only sporadically. Fred Bauer…

Why Gay Rights Are Not The New Civil Rights

Stephen H. Webb

Supporters of same-sex marriage love to make analogies to the African American Civil Rights Movement. Analogies are…

Middle-East Meets Middle-Earth

William Kilpatrick

Thank you Netanyahu and may God give us more [people] like you to destroy Hamas!” What’s this?…

Uncle Sam Eavesdropping Outside the Confessional

Aaron Taylor

On 28 March, 1606, Fr. Henry Garnet, an English Jesuit, went on trial in London. He was…

For and Against Liberty

David T. Koyzis

In 1969, Canada’s Criminal Law Amendment Act, known as Omnibus Bill C-150, was granted Royal Assent. Introduced…

Unsolicited Advice On How To Find A Mate

Betsy VanDenBerghe

In one of his lesser known comedies, playwright Neil Simon depicts the irrationality of undiluted physical attraction…