American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Crisis of Christians in Egypt
On Monday, December 12, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi walked alongside the Coptic Pope Tawadros (Theodore) II…
The Persecution of Professor Esolen
Professor Anthony Esolen is a bright jewel in the crown of Catholic higher education in the United…
Crèche Clash
Here’s an update on a story I covered in this space two years ago: the Christmas Wars…
China Rising
I just returned from two weeks touring the People’s Republic of China. The Great Wall, 2,200-year-old Terracotta…
Preserving Limited Government in Difficult Times
Donald Trump’s strong-arming (or bribing) of Carrier into keeping a thousand jobs in the US has scrambled…
Materialist Delusions
“No Need to Fear Russia. The Bear is Broke.” That’s the title of Tim Congdon’s article in…
Requiem for a Despot
Dead at last, dead at last. Fidel Castro has shuffled off this mortal coil, at the age…
Cocktail Theology
A man down the bar from me turned and said, “Is that a costume, or are you…
God Talk
Evenings are when I like to talk to God.I wait all day to watch till He goes…
Shepherd
On clear cold nights when far stars speckle skies& woodsmoke goes straight up & disappearsa dozen constellations…
Gnostic Liberalism
The idea that human beings are non-bodily persons inhabiting non-personal bodies never quite goes away. Although the…
Vulgar Deconstruction
Back in the 1970s, when the humanities still set the intellectual tone for the college campus, it…
Where We Stand
The End of Protestantism: Pursuing Unity in a Fragmented Church by peter j. leithart baker, 240 pages,…
The Enduring Allure of Fidel
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
We thought that the culture war was behind us and that we were entering a Brave New…
