American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Bottum: Christmas in New York
Another Christmas Rerun ¯this one from the new December issue of First Things . Shouldn’t you be…
Anderson: Peter Singer’s Animals
Animal-rights activists are up in arms about a recent statement by Peter Singer¯a bioethics professor at Princeton’s…
JB: A Christmas Carol Revisited
Another in our series of Christmas Reruns ¯writings on the season from our authors through the years.…
Bottum: PS Christmases Past
Another in our series of Christmas Reruns ¯ writings on the season from our authors through the…
Ruiz: Jesus, Manly Man
“Manliness is next to godliness,” ran the Los Angeles Times headline on December 7. The article examines…
Bottum: Comfort and Joy
A second in our series of Christmas Reruns ¯writings on the season from our authors through the…
Novak: In Praise of Jeane Kirkpatrick
Aristotle wrote that the criterion of good moral action is not a principle or a law so…
Powers: The Party of Responsibility?
The Republicans seem to have lost the values voters in the midterm elections. William Saletan, author of…
Bottum: Christmas Reruns
The first of our Christmas Reruns ¯writings on the season from our authors through the years. It’s…
Anderson: The Quiverfulls and the Future
Perhaps you’ve noticed them, too. People have been talking about them throughout the web. Feministing.com described a…
Miller: Martino and High Stone Walls
Vatican City, as most people know, is a sovereign state, albeit a very small one entirely within…
Sacramone: Review of Babel
In the biblical story of the Tower of Babel, the hubris of technological man, seeking to realize…
I Went In, I Knew Not Where
I went in, I knew not where and stayed, not knowing, but going past the boundaries of…
Miniatures, 1996-99
In Twilight I well remember the very widespread custom, back in the South, of “twilighting.” Carried over…
Coplas: In Pursuit
In pursuit of amatory adventure, hope bid me fly and I rose so high, so hig that…