American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Prisoners Are Calling. Who’s Answering?
Prisons, at the very minimum are intended as quarantine; keeping cities and towns safer by removing criminals…
The Conservative Road to Serfdom?
George Will argues that American politics is divided between conservatives, “who take their bearings from the individual’s…
Yale’s Agony Over Social Justice
Last night Yale’s campus pro-life group—after a year in which they participated in meetings and even helped…
Beat the Establishment
The divorce papers of Democratic lobbyist super couple Tony and Heather Podesta show that for a certain…
Frankenstein Unbound
Read part one here. “Those institutions and reporters were never as good as their reputations. . .…
The Marriage that Made America
Why do we remember Martha Washington as Lady Washington? Isn’t this the kind of aristocratic pretension that…
The Voracious Nought
I just got back from giving a lecture at a small liberal-arts college. The tenured professors were…
To Lead America, Follow Canada
Let me know if you’ve heard this one. Republicans need to move to the center and nominate…
Mozilla, Mo’ Problems
Silicon Valley is in an uproar. Angry blog posts have been written, resignations tendered, and boycotts organized,…
The President and the Patriarch
Vladimir Putin, who after a sham “referendum” completed his aggressive seizure of Crimea, denies he has plans…
CPAC Behind Bars
A few weeks back, I highlighted the friction between ascendant libertarians and ignored social conservatives at the…
Biotech Babies
Suzanne is a forty-year-old mother of two who recentlyattended an Evangelical women’s Bible study in a suburb…
Poetic Theologian
Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence by shai held indiana, 352 pages, $38.95 Few modern theological…
The Ancients on Abortion
Teaching Dante’s Divine Comedy last semester, I hopedto cruise through the Purgatorio to make sure we completed…
Briefly Noted
Dark Passages of the Bible: Engaging Scripture with Benedict XVI and Thomas Aquinasby matthew j. ramagecua, 312…