American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Abortion Pills Head to the Supreme Court
Two judicial rulings over mifepristone this month have set the stage for the most important legal battle…
Justice for Alito (ft. Mollie Hemingway)
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Mollie Hemingway joins…
The Education of Cole Tomas Allen
This essay will appear in the upcoming June/July issue of First Things. The most terrifying and telling…
How the SPLC Got into America’s Classrooms
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has been indicted for a variety of crimes. To laymen, the…
Charles and Trump’s Very Special Relationship
Amid rampant speculation about what King Charles would say and do on his state visit to the…
Debates about Postliberalism
I tire of debates about postliberalism. So it was with reluctance that I turned to Zachary Chambers’s intervention,…
America’s Prodigal Fathers (ft. Timothy Goeglein)
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Timothy S. Goeglein…
Is Churchill America’s Hero? (ft. Sean McMeekin)
In this episode, Sean McMeekin joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his…
The West Distorted
G. K. Chesterton’s novel The Flying Inn begins with a strange seaside encounter involving one Misysra Ammon,…
Does Just War Doctrine Require Moral Certainty?
Pope Leo XIV has made it clear that the U.S. war on Iran does not, in his…
The Savannah Enlightenment
In 1716, a remarkable commoner by the name of James Oglethorpe took a leave of absence from…
Trump, Leo, and the Death of Integralism
There is a Yiddish witticism, Der Mensch tracht, un Gott lacht (“Man plans, and God laughs”), and…
Faith-Based Failures
On January 24, 2025, Mukhtar Mohamed Shariff was sentenced to seventeen years in prison for his role…
An American Pope at a Time of War
When it comes to papal matters in Rhode Island, I am often interviewed on the local news.…
The Almost-Greatness of Donald Trump and Leo XIV
Reading—for obvious reasons—Henri Daniel-Rops’s The Church in the Dark Ages, I have been repeatedly struck by the truism…
