American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Struggle Against the Gods

Gao Zhisheng

Because of my legal work on behalf of groups persecuted by the Chinese government, I have been…

Going Benedict, Orthodox Jewish Style

Bethany Mandel

In Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, characters “go Galt” by disappearing into a valley, Galt’s Gulch, when society…

Rivers Declared to Be “Persons”

Wesley J. Smith

We live in truly surreal times. In an age when all human beings still do not have…

Looking for Some Health Care Heroes

Pete Spiliakos

The attempt by the mismatched team of Donald Trump and Paul Ryan to repeal Obamacare has failed.…

God’s Image, Man’s Crimes

James R. Rogers

Yesterday I discussed parts of Shane Claiborne’s Biblical arguments in Executing Grace in favor of abolishing the…

Death Penalties and the Divine

James R. Rogers

In Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It’s Killing Us, Shane Claiborne argues…

Supreme Incoherence: Transgender Ideology and the End of Law

Jeff Shafer

In The Trouble with Principle, Stanley Fish recites an observation that John Milton included in his Areopagitica:…

Can We Talk?

Timothy George

So much of the Bible, and thus so much of the Bible’s theology, takes place through conversations.…

The Benedict Option and the Way of Exchange

Alan Jacobs

Surely there has never been a richer and more deeply faithful model of Christian faith and practice…

In Praise of the “New Alarmism”

Charles J. Chaput

Let’s start with two simple facts. All of us have limited time. Most of us have limited…

Your “Wellness” or Your Freedom

Wesley J. Smith

Promoting wellness is becoming a means for government and big business to exercise control over our lives.…

The Agony of Paul Ryan

Pete Spiliakos

House Speaker Paul Ryan is a good guy in a bad situation. What’s worse, it is Ryan’s…

Persuasive Disciples, Not Anarchic Disrupters

George Weigel

We are living through a dangerous moment in our national life, of an intensity and potential for…

How Many Foreigners Is an American Worth?

James R. Rogers

How do, or how should, Christian Americans answer the question of the moment: “Does the welfare of…

Generation Z: Desperate for Rules

Betsy VanDenBerghe

I recently attended a meeting that many would consider anachronistic: Standards Night, an annual gathering for Mormon…