American Politics

In spite of the general malaise that looms over England like a malignant cloud, there are still…

Death threats issued to Pope Benedict XVI, Muslims burning the Pope in effigy, promises to conquer Rome…

The passage quoted by Pope Benedict XVI in his speech at the University of Regensburg that caused…

No, not that Ronald Dworkin, the legal philosopher at New York University. This Ronald Dworkin is a…

Heather Mac Donald’s defense of “skeptical” (i.e., atheist) conservatives against the Religious Right has by now been…

I don’t agree at all with Gary Francione , the Rutgers University law professor who seeks to…

“My bonnie lass she smelleth, making all the flowers jealouth.” I’m with you, Anthony . The P.D.Q.…

In about March or April of 1968 (is it really so many years ago?), I received a…

Cultural studies, postcolonialism, and postmodernity have so completely corrupted higher education that one wonders if their infiltration…

Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews edited by jonathan cottwenner, 464 pages, $23.95 No matter how many albums…

A few years ago, I wrote an essay in praise of the Harry Potter books that yielded…

American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion,Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century by…

Where did the storm over immigration come from? In conversations with folks who are in the thick…

I know I reveal my old-fogeyism when I say that I’m only vaguely aware of who Britney…

Somebody thought The Passion needed a sequel, and not merely in the theological sense. What’s more, somebody…