The Editors

Wesley J. Smith on collectivism and individualism : Collectivism is always a potent message for those who feel a sense of oppression and/or economic strain. Thus, it was the very economic difficulties experienced by my friend’s touted demographic cohorts that made Obama’s message of . . . . Continue Reading »

Leroy Huizenga on our creative minority moment : Barack Obama’s victory has crushed conservatism, ended the Republic, and ushered in a thousand years of darkness. Or such was the mood last week among many political conservatives, who saw this election’s results as the sign of the death of . . . . Continue Reading »

George Weigel on the crisis of a second Obama administration : President Obama’s re-election and the prospect of a second Obama administration, freed from the constraints imposed by the necessity of running for re-election, have created a crisis for the Catholic Church in the United States. In . . . . Continue Reading »

Elizabeth Scalia on Moses and the Gipper and the End of America : It’s not coming back because half the country didn’t want it, or didn’t even recognize what it had and therefore won’t miss it, and because for young adults and the generations coming up the backbone of . . . . Continue Reading »

R.R. Reno on the Republicans’ blind spot : The economic issues? We should not underestimate how many voters in the muddy middle went for Obama because they feel vulnerable and just don’t trust the Republican Party to look out for their interests. Here, Republican operatives and . . . . Continue Reading »

Peter J. Leithart on the religious right After Reaganism : I’ve made adjustments to bring this piece up to date, but I wrote most of it in January 2009 when President Obama was inaugurated for his first term. Friends told me at the time that I was overwrought, that Obama’s election was a . . . . Continue Reading »

Rachel Lu on seizing the Mormon moment : The good news for Mormons is that America does not hate them. A year ago many Democrats were hopefully predicting that Americans would be unwilling to elect a Mormon president. In the end, though, Romney’s Mormonism does not seem to have been a serious . . . . Continue Reading »

David Talcott on California’s ban on same-sex therapy : Today in California, a sixteen-year-old girl can get an abortion without even notifying her parents, let alone needing her father’s permission. But if that same girl has sexual feelings for another girl and wants to get rid of those . . . . Continue Reading »

Jon A. Shields on abortion coverage at the New York Times : Nearly twenty years ago, the judicious James Davison Hunter noted that journalistic reporting on abortion is “remarkable for its superficiality” since it rarely explores the “deeper issues and implications of the abortion . . . . Continue Reading »

William Doino Jr. on democracy and the gospel of Christ : Christianity’s relationship toward democracy has always been complex, and sometimes fearful, because certain democracies have been anything but Christian. The most notorious example is the French Revolution, where “the sovereign . . . . Continue Reading »