American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
“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…
Homage to a Christian Humanist
When John T. Noonan, Jr. died last week at the age of 90, the American people lost…
Kink is Not Conscience
Why are some conservative-leaning writers defending Larry Garfield? Garfield was until recently a major developer at Drupal,…
Al Gore’s Holy Anger
When asked how he dealt with hostile skeptics, Al Gore first advised against returning anger with anger.…
France is a Broken Country
The results of the first round of France’s 2017 presidential election have predictably been portrayed as embodying…
