Joshua Mitchell

Identity politics is an incomplete religion, according to which impure groups must be purged. Continue Reading »

Dr. Joshua Mitchell addresses the rise of identity politics, its relation to Christianity, and the destruction of societal institutions.  Continue Reading »

After almost a century, what fruit has the conservative distinction between nature and history yielded? Many conservatives today gather in the shade of the tree grown by Leo Strauss, who concluded that because modern man had abandoned nature and been seduced by history, all things—including . . . . Continue Reading »

As Christianity goes in eclipse, liberal citizenship is giving way to our primordial instincts. Continue Reading »

Beyond the election itself, the question of the future of the American regime remains unsettled. Continue Reading »

Identity politics provides a cheap shortcut to redemption, a fig leaf that hides man from his own darkened heart. Continue Reading »

As we watch the mostly white officials of the Democratic party pander to black Americans with talk of reparations on which they will never deliver, it is worth pondering their motive. The support of black Americans for the Democratic party is pre­carious. Black America, the secret soul of our . . . . Continue Reading »

Among conservatives today there is an emerging confidence about the nation. But it remains a timid confidence, expressed among fellow-travelers but not in the broader political culture. Awkwardness still prevails. We are living “after ­globalism,” yet we are embarrassed by our return to the . . . . Continue Reading »

The now infamous second presidential debate was a spectacle that few decent Americans want to witness again. It was also a spectacular one-act recapitulation of the four-hundred-year-long drama of sex and sin in Protestant America. Continue Reading »

Democracy will only arrive in the Middle East when families and tribes become much less important than they now are. Continue Reading »