American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Slouching Toward Vegas
South and West: From a Notebookby joan didionknopf, 160 pages, $21 “There is,” says Don DeLillo, “a…
Goodbye, Left and Right
Flagged down on his way to the polls in a ritzy part of Paris, a French voter…
Killer Show
Thirteen Reasons Why begins just after high school sophomore Hannah Baker has killed herself. Over the course…
Adam Smith’s Civilizing Process
Adam Smith is known as the founding theorist of capitalism. Surprisingly, he agreed with many of his…
“I Just Want Her To Be Happy”
The Science Talent Search is the leading science competition for American high school students. It’s often referred…
Bret Stephens and the Climate Change Center
Bret Stephens seemed to be playing it safe. True, his inaugural column at the New York Times…
The Land of Athanasius and its Lessons
The visit of Pope Francis to Egypt last week (April 28-29) was an act of personal courage,…
Après Gorsuch le Deluge
Did you find the Gorsuch hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee a depressing exercise in political theater?…
A Life of Being-in-the-World
The profession of philosophy lost one of its most distinguished members with the death of Hubert Dreyfus…
Benedict Option
There’s something very right about Rod Dreher’s call to action in The Benedict Option: A Strategy for…
Metamorphoses
A turkey, turnkey, turncoat, dovecote, dovewaddles and wavers and wings her way above,metempsychoses, metamorphosescrossing horizons, orisons, seasons,…
A Disunited Methodist Church
Just as the Roman Catholic Church was shaped, in part, by the culture of the Empire, so…
Tomorrow Belongs to “Meh”
The first season of Amazon’s Man in the High Castle promised well. Yes, it departed from Philip…
The Real “Anti-Science”
When Bill Nye the Science Guy complains of a war being waged on science, he should look…
Hillary Clinton and Rich, White, Crooked Liberalism
The agonies of the Hillary Clinton campaign are rendered—mostly in boring detail—in the new book Shattered. Most…
