American Politics

A paralyzing gelid vortex of a January morning. He lay under the covers as the beckoning New…

Gratitude: An Intellectual History? by peter j. leithart? baylor, 350 pages, $49.95 Peter Leithart’s Gratitude: An Intellectual…

In July 2011, Ireland’s newly elected Prime Minister (or “Taoiseach”) Enda Kenny launched an unprecedented attack on…

Through her final hour he gently clasps the icy silence of her pallid hand, her plea to…

The world is being subjected to horrific images of religious violence. The Islamic State (IS) in Iraq…

Dr. Jonathan Gruber, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is best known these days for…

Bruno Latour’s 1993 We Have Never Been Modern is a neglected masterpiece. Its argument is compressed, the terminology idiosyncratic.…

Stephen Cox is Professor of Literature at the University of California-San Diego, editor of Liberty, a journal…

I am a very proud alumnus of the Franciscan University of Steubenville. I earned a bachelor’s degree…

Disruption can be an effective protest tactic if limited and carefully targeted. But disruption seems to have…

I am inclined to blame pacifism for our embrace of torture. Now, I do not consider myself qualified…

In 2010, 54 percent of Americans thought our immigration system was broken. Today, that number is 74…

I don’t make my kids go to church; I want them to make up their own minds…

President Obama’s recent actions to effectively exempt millions of unauthorized immigrants from deportation and to issue them…

One April night thirteen years ago, a police sharpshooter killed Jake. Jake (I have disguised his name)…