American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Rules Not Virtue
The Rule of Nobody: Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government by philip k. howard norton,…
Slowdown
On your thirtieth birthday, you find that your clothes Belong to someone slimmer. It’s like only your…
Dating Books
One of the pleasures of recording on the inside cover of a book the date you finished…
Karl Barth’s Failure
Karl Barth was the greatest theologian since the Reformation, and his work is today a dead letter.…
Elder Iosef’s Rules for Hermits
Wake at four o’clock, Byzantine time.Attend to yourselves.Recall that all is vanity.Say together Matins.At the First Hour,…
Starvation as the New “Death with Dignity”
Self-starvation has become the latest craze among the “death with dignity” crowd. This has been coming on for…
A Tea Party for Everyone
What will the legacy of the Tea Party be? A few Senate wins and government shutdowns? Or…
Piling Cliché Upon Cliché
In the past two days, federal courts have redefined marriage in two states: Oregon and Pennsylvania. No…
How “Salem” Shows We Need To Be A Little More Puritanical
Some years ago, I read much of Perry Miller’s The American Puritans for a class. I came…
Allow Abortion—Or You’re Guilty of Torture
U.N. experts in Geneva were at it again last week telling the Holy See that Catholic teaching…
We Need More First Amendment Freedom, Not Less
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously wrote that the answer to objectionable speech “is more speech,…
The Folly of Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Advocates of a mass amnesty for 11 million illegal aliens, under the banner of “comprehensive immigration reform,”…
The Hebrew Republic
Scholars have long recognized that the Bible supplied what Mark Noll has called the “common coinage of…
What Happened to Switzerland
In 2008, bioethicist Yuval Levin in his book Imagining the Future: Science and American Democracy identified a subtle…
Legislative Bullying
Who—in sensitive, civilized America in 2014—could possibly be in favor of bullying? Every decent adult wants students…
