American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Requiem for a Despot

Carlos Eire

Dead at last, dead at last. Fidel Castro has shuffled off this mortal coil, at the age…

Cocktail Theology

William Dailey

A man down the bar from me turned and said, “Is that a costume, or are you…

God Talk

John Whitworth

Evenings are when I like to talk to God.I wait all day to watch till He goes…

Shepherd

D.S. Martin

On clear cold nights when far stars speckle skies& woodsmoke goes straight up & disappearsa dozen constellations…

Gnostic Liberalism

Robert P. George

The idea that human beings are non-bodily persons inhabiting non-personal bodies never quite goes away. Although the…

Vulgar Deconstruction

Mark Bauerlein

Back in the 1970s, when the humanities still set the intellectual tone for the college campus, it…

Where We Stand

Carl R. Trueman

The End of Protestantism: Pursuing Unity in a Fragmented Church by peter j. leithart baker, 240 pages,…

The Enduring Allure of Fidel

R. R. Reno

News of Fidel Castro’s death left me cold. The long-lived, wily, and ruthless dictator had maintained his…

Recalibrating the Culture War in 2016

Darrell Bock

We thought that the culture war was behind us and that we were entering a Brave New…

Donald Trump and the Great Projection

Pete Spiliakos

The psychological concept of projection proposes that people impute to others the negative qualities they themselves possess.…

Losing Control of History

William Doino Jr.

If there is one concept that’s taken a massive hit from Donald Trump’s election, it is the…

​Aristotle and the Elections

John Cuddeback

Elections can make you wonder about where you live. It can be frightening to share so little…

Tolerating political diversity

Pavlos Papadopoulos

“How can anyone vote for him?” “How can anyone vote for her?” In a contentious election between…

Those Catholic WikiLeaks

George Weigel

At the risk of causing cardiac distress or cerebral incidents among the bloggers of the Catholic Left,…

Read Their Lips

John Johnson Jr.

There has been a lot of teeth-gnashing over the many extreme, and extremely silly, things being said…