American Politics

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Canceling Corey DeAngelis

Bethel McGrew

Corey DeAngelis, a prominent right-wing school choice activist, was recently fired from the Betsy DeVos-backed American Federation for Children…

Gretchen Whitmer and the Progressive Disdain Toward Catholics

Evan Myers

Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer recently angered Catholics with a video sketch promoting the CHIPS Act. In the video, she…

The Reopening of the American Heart

Kevin D. Roberts

The following is adapted from remarks given at the John Paul II Life Center annual gala in…

Our Problem Is Disintegration

R. R. Reno

Liberals and conservatives disagree less about principles than we often imagine. (It’s common for intellectually inclined, theory-­informed…

Tulsi Gabbard’s Culture Wars

Matthew Schmitz

Tulsi Gabbard’s public career began with opposition to same-sex marriage. It’s a fact about the former Democratic…

Republicans Should Think Twice About Funding IVF

Natalie Dodson

Opposing taxpayer-funded abortion has been a bare-minimum pillar of the pro-life movement. It has served as a…

The Right Must Ease the Burden on Working Moms

Rachel Bovard

One of the biggest complaints I hear from young families,” JD Vance said on the vice-presidential debate…

Weighing the Morality of Refugee Admissions

William Chip

At the end of 2023, 117.3 million people worldwide had to flee their homelands to escape persecution…

Trump Versus Taylor

Darel E. Paul

Politicians tussling with celebrities is usually seen as degrading to the politician. We want our singers, actors,…

On the Politics of Joy

Francis X. Maier

Founded in 1946, the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, sponsored by the Archdiocese of New…

Suicide Pods and the Trivialization of Death

Carl R. Trueman

UnHerd reported this week on a voluntary suicide using a Sarco pod, a 3D-printed personal gas chamber…

Can Trump Be Trusted on Abortion?

Carmel Richardson

A confident, articulate Sen. JD Vance took the vice-presidential debate stage at CBS News Tuesday night to…

The Screwtape Election

Liel Leibovitz

How to make sense of the upcoming presidential election? Those of us reared on reason, logic, and…

The Myth of Technological Neutrality

Michael Toscano

The status of crank is rarely remitted in the span of ten years, but that is what…

The Way Forward After Dobbs

Ryan T. Anderson

It has been two years since the Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson, overturning Roe v. Wade. It…