American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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—May 2014
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…
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. . .…
