American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Free University Orthodoxy

Richard J. Mouw

During the debate over “biblical inerrancy” that raged among evangelicalism for several years in the late 1970s,…

Endangered Faiths

Christian C. Sahner

Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East by gerard russell basic…

Mary, Mother of All

Mollie Ziegler Hemingway

My children shower me with affection, so I have no real reason to go fishing for more…

Winter Songs

Nathaniel Peters

Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession by ian bostridge knopf, 528 pages, $29 One hundred and…

Religious Rights

Mark Movsesian

Christian Human Rights by samuel moyn university of pennsylvania, 264 pages, $24.95 Samuel Moyn, a professor of…

On a Young Writer

James Matthew Wilson

On being asked by a young friend of mine / The surest way to make himself an…

Liberalism’s Future

R. R. Reno

When it comes to equality, the rising generation of liberal leaders may talk the talk, but they’re…

Bad Advice

Bryce Christensen

Not gentle, I went mad, as that good night / Enveloped me. What did you hope I’d…

Letters—January 2016

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Teachers In his “Re-Educate for America” (November), Malcolm Rivers identifies correctly the cultural hegemony that undergirds the…

Liberal Racism Bares Its Fangs

George Weigel

Given the politically-correct hysteria that typically surrounds any discussion of racism these days, I hesitate to use…

Machiavellianism and Idealism in Foreign Policy

Pete Spiliakos

Is the US obligated to do what is best for its people regardless of justice, or is…

Whatever Happened to Sacral Kingship?

Aaron Weinacht

The Watershed of Modern Politics: Law, Virtue, Kingship, and Consent (1300-1650)by Francis OakleyYale University Press, 440 pages,…

Rise of the “Unholy Left”

Michael P. Murphy

The Devil’s Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West by michael…

What Kind of Nationalism Do We Want?

Pete Spiliakos

The recent victory of the right-populist National Front in France and Donald Trumps’ continued lead in the…

Neoconservative Catholicism in America

Patrick Garry

A Partisan Church: American Catholicism and the Rise of Neoconservative Catholics by todd scribner cua, 155 pages,…