American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
21st c. Emily
I’ve never lived in Dublin,there is no desk that’s mine,but Google has an app for that—the job…
Laundry List
“The ordinary acts we practice every dayat home are of more importance to the soulthan their simplicity…
Persuasion Anxiety
Republic of Spindavid greenbergw. w. norton, 560 pages, $35 Our country, being democratic, sends its cultural elites…
Trumpageddon!
The Republican establishment has swung into defcon i, maximum force alert. Last month I contributed to a…
Getting it Right with the Constitution
The sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia forces us to reconsider the role that the Constitution plays…
An Abandoned White Middle Class
Is First Things promoting its own form of identity politics? A friend wrote recently, wondering exactly that.…
Mainstreaming “Animal Personhood”
Complacency is cultural subversion’s best friend. You know what I mean: When a radical proposal is voiced,…
The Stuntmen and the Lost Voters
The last two presidential elections have seen joke candidacies and the joke is on us. In 2012,…
Anger and Citizenship
The Iowa caucuses are in the rear-view mirror, the New Hampshire primary looms on the horizon, and…
The Third Temptation
In the mid-1970s, the famous Mennonite theologian and ethicist John Howard Yoder visited Calvin College to give…
Wedding Toast
Here’s hoping the years will be kindand plenteous; through them you findnew charms in your lover,and should…
Civil Obedience
The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind Man’s Fight for Justice and Freedom in China by chen guangcheng henry…
An Artist at Vatican II
The Memoirs of Louis Bouyer by louis bouyer translated by john pepino angelico, 272 pages, $19.95 T…
One Brother Suffers
(for my sons) One brother suffers, and another brother—and then a third—is standing by his side.This is…
Populism
T he rise of populism in Europe—and here in the United States by way of Donald Trump—is…
