American Politics

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Britain Votes on Brexit Today. Here’s What’s at Stake

R. R. Reno

Today is the most important day in European politics since November 9, 1989. That was the day…

Our Divisions Aren’t Caused by Davos Elites

Pete Spiliakos

It is tempting to believe that America is divided between the people (however flawed they might be)…

Confessions of an “Elitist”

George Weigel

The term “elitist” has been bandied about so promiscuously in this election cycle that it’s become virtually…

Orlando was Not a Tragedy

R. R. Reno

Omar Mateen’s murder of forty-nine people in Orlando has been called a tragedy—“the Orlando tragedy,” as we…

A President in Denial

William Doino Jr.

After the June 12th massacre in Orlando, the deadliest act of terrorism in the United States since…

Terrorism Is Not Hate

R. R. Reno

Hate. It’s a word many have used to describe Omar Mateen’s slaughter of fifty people at an…

The Bible Cause at 200

Timothy George

Two hundred years ago this Spring, on May 11, 1816, representatives from local Bible societies around the…

We Have A Country

Pete Spiliakos

It was never about small government. That is the bitter lesson many conservatives have learned, as they…

The Odd Command

Frederick Turner

My loved one sleeps and softly just respires,A strange and intricate consort of cells.Each does exactly what…

Is Liberalism a Heresy?

Francesca Aran Murphy

The only viable vehicle of conservatism in modernity is a market-oriented liberalism that regards freedom within law…

Ghost of a Rose

Matthew Walther

Sir Thomas Browne: A Lifeby reid barbouroxford, 552 pages, $125 Thomas Browneedited by kevin killeenoxford, 1,018 pages,…

Mother Teresa’s Worlds

Stephen Schwartz

Since receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, Mother Teresa has been a global symbol of mercy…

Sides of Pride

Barbara Lydecker Crane

Trouble lies in feeling proud.I was taught that it’s a sinand that I shouldn’t share aloud some…

Gehenna

Joshua Hren

Where Moloch relished children sacrificedOutside Jerusalem, where worms won’t die. Am I a fool to claim the…

Intolerance and Evangelization

George Weigel

Cardinal Robert Sarah is one of the adornments of the Catholic Church, although it’s very unlikely that…