American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Stench of Corruption
The Trump family’s exploitation of every opportunity to enrich themselves demoralizes me, as I’m sure it does…
While We’re At It
The Republican Party and the Trump White House protect and promote vice industries that exploit Americans, especially…
Letters—October 2026
I’m grateful for Stephan Pax Leonard’s essay on his conversion to Orthodoxy (“Why I Became Orthodox,” June/July…
Charlie Kirk’s Evangelical Populism
Born at the end of the Millennial generation, Charlie Kirk rose to prominence in tandem with Donald…
The Apocalypse That Wasn’t
There is a long-running strain of New Testament criticism, associated most famously with Albert Schweitzer, that places…
Unlearned Lessons of 9/11, a Quarter-Century Later
Several weeks after Islamist terrorists hijacked four planes, wreaking havoc in lower Manhattan and at the Pentagon…
Words That Made a Nation: New and Notable Books
With Constitution Day taking place this month, a few books on the Founding of our republic are…
Odysseus in America
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Patrick Deneen joins…
Everything Is America
The editors discuss Trump’s renaming craze and its implications for international politics, the decay of academia in…
The End of Populism?
Have you noticed the recent flood of commentaries and articles in the mainstream media dwelling on why…
The Meaning of 1776
On the night he was elected president, in November 2008, Barack Obama addressed a throng in Chicago…
The Douthat Decade
For conservative Christian nerds it is a hammer blow. Imagine the grief and shock if Taylor Swift…
The Spiritual Appeal of Democratic Socialism
As a proud “Reagan Democrat,” I felt blessed to be in Berlin a few days after the…
AOC’s Illogical Case for Egg Freezing
This is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s week. Amid the backlash over her cavalier dismissal of “Woke 1”—the era of…
The Truth About Truth API
Five years ago, the most powerful media companies in the world—Facebook and Twitter, as it was then…
