American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

The Judicial Usurpation of Parliament

Peter Hitchens

Far too often nowadays I have that disturbing feeling of walking on a thin crust suspended over…

Twitteracusis 

John Waters

The most debilitating aspects of my current illness (Ramsay Hunt Syndrome) have been those associated with my…

Newman at the Amazon Synod

Dan Hitchens

A spectre is haunting the preparations for next month’s Amazon Synod: the spectre of John Henry Newman,…

What’s at Stake in the French-Ahmari Debate?

R. R. Reno

One wag has called it the “Franco-Persian War.” The debate between David French and Sohrab Ahmari has…

The Dangers of Workism

Lyman Stone

Sen. Marco Rubio recently wrote that the purpose of economic policymaking is to ensure that people have…

Help My Unbelief

Dale M. Coulter

My brother committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in the fall of 1980. It was a gut-wrenching…

All You Need Is Jesus

John Waters

I’ve been to see the “good-time movie of the summer”: Yesterday, the story of a world in…

Hitler the Progressive

Peter Hitchens

Has the mass murder of Europe’s Jews eclipsed the other significant horrors of Hitler’s Germany? Does it…

Penguin Dysphoria

Fr. George W. Rutler

At a young age I knew more about Viking rune stones and fifteenth-century Venetian commerce than is…

Australian Justice in the Dock

George Weigel

Consider this sequence of events, familiar to some but evidently not to others: March 2013: Prior to…

Renewing the Transatlantic Alliance

R. R. Reno

In June, German politician Norbert Röttgen offered a sober assessment of the frayed relations between the European…

Concerning Bullshit

Francis X. Maier

Princeton University, as its graduates will gladly tell you, is the real treasure of the Ivy League.…

Playing Church

Paul V. Mankowski

An Associated Press feel-good story surfaced recently concerning the festive send-off and theatrical suicide of a 75-year-old…

French and Ahmari Enter the Ring

Ramona Tausz

For much of their debate, hosted on Thursday at Catholic University of America, David French and Sohrab Ahmari were talking past each other. When…

As “The League” Begins Its Centennial Season

George Weigel

By the Gargantuan standards of the 21st-century National Football League, Gino Marchetti, who died April 29, was…