American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Modest Defense of the “Liberal World Order”
Some preliminaries: I quite agree that the United Nations is a sad, and sometimes malicious, joke. I…
Goodbye California: A Lament
I was born at the French Hospital, City of Los Angeles, State of California, in 1949. As…
Our Faint-Hearted Nationalists
If left-wing cosmopolitanism wins, it will be because our conservative nationalists were insufficiently nationalist. It will be…
Green Card Holders in the City of Man
Many commentators on both right and left agree that President Trump’s recent executive order temporarily banning refugee…
Evangelicals in Exile
When I was an evangelical convert in high school in the 1990s, the Religious Right was rallying—not…
Islam and America
A preview of The Public Square, forthcoming in the March issue of First Things. The confirmation hearings…
The Pig-Man Isn’t
There has been much handwringing about the news that scientists injected human stem cells into pig embryos,…
The Flight 216 Selection
Judge Neil Gorsuch is a walking, talking Hollywood writer’s pitch: “I’ve got it! Antonin Scalia meets Jimmy…
The Statue of Wokeness
President Trump’s executive order limiting immigration from seven majority-Muslim counties reveals a chaotic, cynical administration—and a hysterical,…
America’s Fighting Faith
The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy: How America’s Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interestby walter a. mcdougallyale,…
Benedict the Dissident
Last Testament: In His Own Words by benedict xvi with peter seewald bloomsbury, 288 pages, $24 A…
Ye of Brittle Faith
On December 15, 2011, Christopher Hitchens died of esophageal cancer. Some remember him as a man of…
Letters—February 2017
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…
