American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Ye of Brittle Faith
On December 15, 2011, Christopher Hitchens died of esophageal cancer. Some remember him as a man of…
Letters
Protesting Malcolm Rivers concluded his article in the December issue (“The Protest”) with a reproach to today’s…
Calling Torture by its Name
In conversation with ABC News in his first televised interview since taking office, President Donald Trump spoke…
The Pro-Life Imperative
In 1973, after the Supreme Court issued its Roe v. Wade decision, the New York Times expressed…
Rural Revenge
With the arrival of the Trump administration, and its unorthodox approach to the mainstream news and entertainment…
An Open Letter to My Liberal Friends
To my liberal friends, on the day after the Women’s March: I woke up this morning with…
Nat Hentoff, Great Defender of Human Life
The late, great Nat Hentoff befriended me during the 1990s, I don’t remember exactly when. Having read…
The Virtues of the Old Establishment
There is something I miss about George Herbert Walker Bush and the bipartisan establishment he represented. I…
Nat Hentoff: One of a Kind
Nat Hentoff died recently, at the age of 91, in his own apartment, “surrounded by family [and]…
The Politics of Answered Prayer
Unanswered prayer is hard to take. “Ask and it will be given,” Jesus promises. When we ask…
Cocktails with the Existentialists
Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktailsby sarah bakewellother press, 448 pages, $25 More than seven decades…
My Orange Juice Came from Brazil
A couple of weeks ago when I was having breakfast, I noticed that my “not from concentrate”…
The John the Baptist of Post-Truth Politics
There is being a sore loser, and there is being a sore loser. Bill Clinton has many…
Rogue One and the Return of Reverence
Star Wars is—or should be—a religious franchise. The Jedi are a monastic order trained in contemplating and…
Tocqueville in the Gutter
The Art of Being Free: How Alexis de Tocqueville Can Save Us from Ourselvesby james poulosst martin’s,…
