American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

2022: Our Year in Film and Television

Various

We asked some of our writers to contribute a paragraph about the most memorable films and TV…

The Child Tax Credit Should Promote Work and Marriage

Patrick T. Brown

Year-end flurries of legislative activity are a congressional tradition, and this year is seeing a supercharged version.…

The New Women’s Movement

Jonathon Van Maren

Women are launching a counter-revolution. Powerful female activists are fighting the transgender movement’s massive push to provide…

How to Be Critical

Ulrich L. Lehner

Do you remember when you toured college campuses and heard admission counselors and deans praise their school…

Churchly Interpretation of the Bible

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, R. R. Reno…

Dénouement

Jane Blanchard

When all goes ill instead of well,There is no remedy but love.Test after test, results do tellWhen…

Reactionary Shakespeare

Patrick Gray

Holding a Mirror up to Nature:Shame, Guilt, and Violence in Shakespeareby james gilligan and david a. j.…

Why I Went to a Catholic College

Veronica Clarke

I was seventeen when my father and I embarked on the long flight to Denver from Amsterdam,…

Love Stronger Than Death

Peter J. Leithart

All of us live in hope. We get up in the morning hoping today will be worth…

How One Christian School Addressed Critical Theory

Bradley G. Green

More than twenty years ago, my wife and I helped found Augustine School, a classical Christian school…

Dancing in the City

Elizabeth Bachmann

A stranger stands before you, eyes on your eyes, hand outstretched to your hand, awaiting your response:…

Praying Outside the Abortion Clinic

John Murdock

In secret places they murder the innocent.” I read those words from Psalm 10 outside a Planned…

Philip Jeffery on Made-for-TV Politics

R. R. Reno

Editor R. R. Reno is joined by Philip Jeffery to talk about his article, “Made-for-TV Politics,” from the…

The Substance of a Choice

Francis X. Maier

One evening thirty-one years ago, I found myself sitting in the grimy yellow light of a medical…

Divorce and Dissolution

Richard Rex

The Dissolution of the Monasteries:A New Historyby james g. clarkyale university, 704 pages, $35 The closure of…