American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
What Arthur Brooks Gets Wrong
Americans aren’t angry, writes American Enterprise Institute President Arthur C. Brooks (Love Your Enemies). When we’re angry,…
A Pro-Natal Proposal for America
Among America’s culture wars—from guns to gay marriage, drug legalization to penal reform—no battle is more emotionally…
Against the Dead Consensus
The 2016 election laid bare profound but long-hidden ideological divisions among America’s conservative intellectuals. Some of us…
The Fraud of Higher Education
In The Republic, Plato’s Socrates tells of a man who lives with a beast. The beast is…
California Threatens the Seal of Confession
On February 20, California Democratic State Senator Jerry Hill, whose affluent, liberal-leaning district encompasses the San Francisco…
Redeeming the Time with St. Patrick
Every St. Patrick’s Day, some people insist on repeating “surprising” facts about Ireland’s patron saint. One of…
The Holy See and Cardinal Pell
Cardinal George Pell’s December 2018 conviction on charges of “historic sexual abuse” was a travesty of justice,…
The Most Anti-Christian Country on Earth
The Taoiseach (to outsiders, Ireland’s prime minister, Leo Varadkar) recently responded to a call for crucifixes to…
Our Dreyfus Case
In December 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus of the French Army was convicted of treason on the grounds…
The Least of These
There has been much righteous criticism of the forty-four Democratic senators who thwarted a bill that would…
The Future of Brexit
After a recent trip to Leicester, England, I glanced at how the region voted in the referendum.…
Trans Men Erase Women
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova, who is openly lesbian, has been ousted from the board of Athlete Ally,…
Trump Attacks Planned Parenthood
Last week, the Trump Administration enacted the “Protect Life Rule,” which will change Title X regulations to begin…
Living Down Bombingham
Between 1947 and 1965, white vigilantes dynamited fifty black homes and churches in Birmingham, Alabama. On one…
The Annunciation II
(To Gabriel) You are much nearer Godthan I, in solitude, withdrawn,can ever hope to be.You are the…
