American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
On Reading Old Books
Are the classics outdated? Some think so. “There’s nothing new, no sense of exploration or departure from…
Disraeli’s Romanticism, Trump’s Nationalism
The rise of Donald Trump has led me to think again about Benjamin Disraeli, one of the…
The Conservative Lawyers versus the Never Trumpers
Just a month ago, in a harbinger of things to come, the conservative side lost in the…
They’re Confessors, Not “Culture-Warriors”
Like Shelby Foote’s three-volume masterpiece, The Civil War: A Narrative, Francis Parkman’s seven-volume colossus, France and England…
The Two Minds of Progressivism
One of the great impediments to understanding the progressive ideology of our age is the fact that…
Does the Goldwater Comparison Really Hold Up?
Donald Trump is the most idiosyncratic Republican Party presidential nominee of the post–World War II era. A…
Nationalism is not Xenophobia
Immigration has emerged as a crucial political issue throughout the West. On Sunday, Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrat…
Heaven in Ohio?
The Heavenly Tableby donald ray pollockdoubleday, 384 pages, $27.95 A book by Donald Ray Pollock is always…
Echoes of Phyllis Schlafly
When Phyllis Schlafly died on September 5 at age 92 at her home in a St. Louis…
The Waters of Death . . . and Life
Water brings to mind both death and life. Through baptism, Paul tells us, “we were indeed buried…
The Dangers of Abandoning the Terminally Ill in Suicide Prevention
Have you noticed that suicide prevention campaigns these days don’t mention assisted suicide? Perhaps they don’t want…
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…
