American Politics
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Boris’s Red Tory Victory
Something has happened in Great Britain that is not wholly unlike what happened in the United States…
The Beginning of the End of the United Kingdom
Make no mistake about it, the United Kingdom has now begun the process of breaking up. It…
In Praise of Telling the Truth
I am currently being accused of serving as an apologist for Bashar al-Assad, one of the most…
“Fairness For All” Is Unfair
I recently gave a presentation on transgenderism to a group of suburban Minnesotans. After my talk, an…
Porn Is Not a Blessing of Liberty
Last week, four Republican congressmen sent a missive to U.S. Attorney General William Barr. This one-page letter…
America As a Catholic Country
As a student in the fourth grade of Saint Thomas Aquinas School in East Lansing, Michigan, I…
Can Nationalism Unite Us?
The Case for Nationalism: How it Made Us Powerful, United, and Free by rich lowry broadside books,…
An Anthem for Postliberals
At my home church in Birmingham, Alabama, and in churches I visit across the country, I often…
A Last Chance for Australian Justice
My late parents loved Cardinal George Pell, whom they knew for decades. So I found it a…
Algorithm Religion
It’s 2032 and you’re heading into town in your self-driving car. You are alone, asleep in the…
Peace In a Plastic World
Western secular culture “is a kind of hothouse growth,” Christopher Dawson wrote—an artificial culture that shelters us…
China’s Sovereignty Tripwire in Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a British city that happens to have an ethnic Chinese majority. It never wanted…
Loyal to Death
Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in Historyby richard j. evansoxford, 800 pages, $39.95 Walter Scott once observed that…
Ordinary Time
The tang of juniper, the dew-wet grassThat grabs your ankles, apples for the taking.The haze between the…
An Icon of St. Margaret
This gold and paint on board, the fillet in her hair—I see resemblance, yes, a slantways glimpse…