American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Ruins of the Pat Buchanan Coalition
Former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan has argued that his timing was off when he ran for president…
Baseball: Practices for Coming Home
Watching the many oblong games—football, basketball, soccer, hockey—might lead one to believe that our human purpose is…
Burrowing In
In a May 9 speech, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that the Justice Department was filing a…
The Moral Heart of Hamilton
After more than a year on Broadway, a hip-hop musical about Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton shows no…
Goldwater Déjà vu
In 1964, my maternal grandfather flabbergasted his entire family and astonished parts of the civilized world by…
Leviathan in the Desert
There’s a whale about to be dropped on the desert of Utah. Not a live animal, but…
Voting Is Only a Moment
Some of my friends are saying that they will not cast a vote for president this November.…
Don’t Feed Trump’s Trolls
One of the sadder sights during this election season has been that of intelligent conservative writers trading…
The End of the Liberal Tradition?
About twenty-five years ago, The National Interest published “The End of History?”— Francis Fukuyama’s extremely influential article…
The Elephant in the Room
Of all our major columnists, Peggy Noonan has thought the most deeply about the anti-establishment sentiments roiling…
Loving Our Enemies
Of all the teachings of the Gospel, one of the least heeded is the command to love…
Against Optimism
The two party conventions ended with a Trump speech labeled “dark” and a Clinton speech labeled “optimistic.”…
Notre Dame’s Deal with the Devil
Tim Kaine is a Harvard Law graduate, but he and other pro-choice Catholic politicians owe much to…
Trump, Kaine, and More Illusions
The following, instructive nugget comes from Times of London columnist Tim Montgomerie, writing in late July after…
Fashion Statements
Wishing our words were tactile,we speak of them like textiles: Dressed-up tales are madeout of whole cloth.…
