American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Sasse’s Case for Anti-Tribes
Them: Why We Hate Each Other—And How We Healben sassest. martin’s press, $28.99, 253 pages Republican Senator…
Confessions of a Catholic Whistleblower
In late July, I began giving internal diocesan documents to an investigative reporter in my hometown of…
Vatican Autocracy and the U.S. Bishops
As the U.S. bishops gathered in Baltimore on the weekend of November 10–11, it seemed certain that,…
Hour of the Wolf
Earlier this year I edited an anthology, Christ’s Body, Christ’s Wounds: Staying Catholic When You’ve Been Hurt…
Deneen Among the Liberals
In his much-discussed Why Liberalism Failed, Patrick Deneen identifies two revolutionary anthropological assumptions that constitute liberalism: first,…
The Rich Turn to the Democrats
Democrats won back the House of Representatives in the 2018 midterm elections thanks to strong gains among…
Mothers Against Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron deepened one of his rhetorical ruts this fall, again stating publicly that human…
A Century After the Armistice
I’m just old enough to remember when my elders still called November 11 “Armistice Day”—the armistice in…
In Defense of Sir Roger
Soon after Sir Roger Scruton was appointed to advise the UK’s Ministry of Housing as chair of…
Restoring Trust
On Monday, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops will convene for its 2018 Fall General Assembly—a…
The Midterms and the “We” Questions
The dust is still settling. Some races are so close that it may be days before the…
Roots of Catholic Anger
After a month out of the country, working in Rome at Synod-2018 and helping mark the fortieth…
The Point of Gosnell
I went to see Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer because I thought I ought…
Kissing Purity Culture Goodbye
Last week, twenty-one years after its initial publication, Joshua Harris officially denounced and discontinued publication of his…
Bringing Sex Back
Words may do literal violence after all. News that the Department of Health and Human Services may…
