American Politics
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Remember the Prisoners
Nobody criticizes us. We have no enemies,” Warden Burl Cain tells me as the servers load our…
The Poor Are Not Middle Class
Linda Tirado’s poverty was a horrible grind with no means of ready escape. “Why I Make Terrible…
InterVarsity Christian Ministry in Trouble for Acting Christian
To protect against discrimination, liberals increasingly seek to discriminate. News broke over the weekend that all twenty-three…
From Cain to Isis
The radical Islamic movement ISIS is more radical than Islamic. It is true, of course, that this…
How to Avoid Death Panels
It shows the level of suspicion people have for government and the health care system that many…
Prison, Purgatory, and Heaven
Several years of prison ministry have convinced me that there are substantial parallels between what we think…
Dogs, Divorce, and Pre-pups
Like, we didn’t see this coming? Pets are becoming the center of custody struggles among divorcing couples.…
Ferguson, Missouri
It pains me to admit it, but I see nothing new in the tragic events in Ferguson,…
The New Nonconformist Conscience
Mozilla’s Brendan Eich, the Miami Dolphins’ Don Jones, HGTV’s Benham brothers: 2014 has been a good year…
Politics and the Arts
Jed Perl warns in the August 25 issue of the New Republic of a new threat to…
Time to Come Clean on Torture
As the Senate report on the CIA’s interrogation program comes closer to publication, truths are finally being…
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle
The trends aren’t dramatic, but they are noteworthy nonetheless. Americans are gradually becoming more pro-life. In 2012…
Is History Really Over?
In 1989, as the Cold War entered the bottom of the ninth inning, political scientist Francis Fukuyama…
Against Obsessive Sexuality
For the March issue of First Things, I wrote an essay called “Against Heterosexuality.” In brief, my…
Forgetting the Christians
This past weekend, the United States began to intervene in the humanitarian crisis unfolding in northern Iraq.…
