American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Starvation as the New “Death with Dignity”
Self-starvation has become the latest craze among the “death with dignity” crowd. This has been coming on for…
A Tea Party for Everyone
What will the legacy of the Tea Party be? A few Senate wins and government shutdowns? Or…
Piling Cliché Upon Cliché
In the past two days, federal courts have redefined marriage in two states: Oregon and Pennsylvania. No…
How “Salem” Shows We Need To Be A Little More Puritanical
Some years ago, I read much of Perry Miller’s The American Puritans for a class. I came…
Allow Abortion—Or You’re Guilty of Torture
U.N. experts in Geneva were at it again last week telling the Holy See that Catholic teaching…
We Need More First Amendment Freedom, Not Less
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously wrote that the answer to objectionable speech “is more speech,…
The Folly of Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Advocates of a mass amnesty for 11 million illegal aliens, under the banner of “comprehensive immigration reform,”…
The Hebrew Republic
Scholars have long recognized that the Bible supplied what Mark Noll has called the “common coinage of…
What Happened to Switzerland
In 2008, bioethicist Yuval Levin in his book Imagining the Future: Science and American Democracy identified a subtle…
Legislative Bullying
Who—in sensitive, civilized America in 2014—could possibly be in favor of bullying? Every decent adult wants students…
The Nietzsche of Recanati
Zibaldoneby giacomo leoparditranslated by kathleen baldwin, richard dixon, david gibbons, ann goldstein, gerard slowey, martin thom, and…
Mechanical Morals
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Themby joshua greenepenguin, 432 pages, $29.95 Joshua…
We Can’t Be Silent
In 1787, at the age of eighty-one, Benjamin Franklin addressed the Constitutional Convention: “I have lived, Sir,…
Letters
Food Fight R. R. Reno’s response to my “pushback” shows that he is not convinced of the…
Give The People Some Respect
Mitt Romney is a good guy. He just doesn’t want you to know it. He tithes. He…
