American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

The Greatest Statesmen Are Thinkers

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Daniel J. Mahoney joins the…

What Fulton Did for Religious Freedom

Mark Rienzi

One year ago, 32 of the nation’s largest companies, including Twitter and Google, claimed that a Supreme Court…

The Last Twentieth-Century Film

Miles Smith

About halfway through Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise’s eponymous Pete “Maverick” Mitchell has a romantic encounter with…

Roman Occupation and Jewish Rebellion

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Guy MacLean Rogers joins the…

Red Flags in the SBC Response to Sexual Abuse

Aaron M. Renn

Judgment begins with the household of God. Evangelicals have frequently pointed out the sins of the world.…

Denizens of Concord

Mark Bauerlein

The Transcendentalists and Their Worldby robert a. grossfarrar, straus and giroux, 864 pages, $40 Why concord? That’s…

Incarnate Worship

Samira Kawash

In the first, surreal weeks of the lockdowns of 2020, we all marveled at how COVID had…

Transgenderism: Escaping Limits

R. R. Reno

The progressive imagination envisions a limitless future. Karl Marx thought that modern industrial production marked a new…

The Death and Life of Italian Families

Virginia Coda Nunziante

Italy, once the country of large families with many children, is today a country of the elderly.…

What Sex Really Is

Audrey Pollnow

The Right to Sex:Feminism in the Twenty-First Centuryby amia srinivasanfarrar, straus and giroux, 304 pages, $28 In…

Learning From the Saints of the Middle East

Samuel Sweeney

Eastern Christianity:A Readeredited by j. edward walterseerdmans, 439 pages, $55 A voice of sighs, of groaning, of…

How Men and Women See

Anthony Esolen

This essay is excerpted and adapted from No Apologies: Why Civilization Depends on the Strength of Men,…

What Orwell Learned From Chesterton

M. D. Aeschliman

The great writer and moralist George Orwell began his literary career as a disciple of G. K.…

The Sound of the Psalms

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. James M. Hamilton Jr. joins the podcast…

The Politics of Unhappiness

Ronald W. Dworkin

A  traffic jam, a shoe that ­pinches: It takes very little to ­ruin a nice day. Nothing…