American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Christianity for the Workers
Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicagoby heath w. carteroxford, 278 pages,…
Trump, Sanders, and the Middle Class
Last week I contributed to the National Review symposium, “Conservatives Against Trump.” I was happy to do…
Nikabrik’s Candidate
If you ever doubt that C. S. Lewis was gifted with a prophetic voice, you need look…
Working-Class Isolation is Fracturing Our Politics
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has been both praised and criticized for her condemnation of the “angriest…
What Euthanasia Enthusiasts Really Want
Assisted-suicide advocacy is wrapped in euphemisms and false assurances. We are often told that medicalized killing will…
Donald Trump and the Revenge of the Scorned
Donald Trump’s fiercest critics have hoped that his outlandish statements will eventually undo him. Their mistake is…
Looking Toward November 8
To redeploy a phrase from President Ford, our “long national nightmare”—in this case, the semi-permanent presidential campaign—will…
Free University Orthodoxy
During the debate over “biblical inerrancy” that raged among evangelicalism for several years in the late 1970s,…
Endangered Faiths
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East by gerard russell basic…
Mary, Mother of All
My children shower me with affection, so I have no real reason to go fishing for more…
Winter Songs
Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession by ian bostridge knopf, 528 pages, $29 One hundred and…
Religious Rights
Christian Human Rights by samuel moyn university of pennsylvania, 264 pages, $24.95 Samuel Moyn, a professor of…
On a Young Writer
By practice skill is got, by practice wit is won.—George Turberville On being asked by a young…
Liberalism’s Future
When it comes to equality, the rising generation of liberal leaders may talk the talk, but they’re…
Bad Advice
“Do not go gentle into that good night” —Dylan Thomas Not gentle, I went mad, as that…
