American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Nietzsche of Recanati
Zibaldoneby giacomo leoparditranslated by kathleen baldwin, richard dixon, david gibbons, ann goldstein, gerard slowey, martin thom, and…
Mechanical Morals
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Themby joshua greenepenguin, 432 pages, $29.95 Joshua…
We Can’t Be Silent
In 1787, at the age of eighty-one, Benjamin Franklin addressed the Constitutional Convention: “I have lived, Sir,…
Letters
Food Fight R. R. Reno’s response to my “pushback” shows that he is not convinced of the…
Give The People Some Respect
Mitt Romney is a good guy. He just doesn’t want you to know it. He tithes. He…
Prisoners Are Calling. Who’s Answering?
Prisons, at the very minimum are intended as quarantine; keeping cities and towns safer by removing criminals…
The Conservative Road to Serfdom?
George Will argues that American politics is divided between conservatives, “who take their bearings from the individual’s…
Yale’s Agony Over Social Justice
Last night Yale’s campus pro-life group—after a year in which they participated in meetings and even helped…
Beat the Establishment
The divorce papers of Democratic lobbyist super couple Tony and Heather Podesta show that for a certain…
Frankenstein Unbound
Read part one here. “Those institutions and reporters were never as good as their reputations. . .…
The Marriage that Made America
Why do we remember Martha Washington as Lady Washington? Isn’t this the kind of aristocratic pretension that…
The Voracious Nought
I just got back from giving a lecture at a small liberal-arts college. The tenured professors were…
To Lead America, Follow Canada
Let me know if you’ve heard this one. Republicans need to move to the center and nominate…
Mozilla, Mo’ Problems
Silicon Valley is in an uproar. Angry blog posts have been written, resignations tendered, and boycotts organized,…
The President and the Patriarch
Vladimir Putin, who after a sham “referendum” completed his aggressive seizure of Crimea, denies he has plans…
