American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Audiovisual Grandeur of Oppenheimer
For Christopher Nolan, cinema is an “audiovisual experience.” To know what he means, one needs to watch…
Just War, Just Peace, and Ukraine
Carl von Clausewitz, the nineteenth-century Prussian military theorist whose masterpiece, On War, is still studied today, is…
Deneen’s Assault on Vitalism
Patrick Deneen’s new book, Regime Change, has elicited a host of takedowns. It has been called everything…
Divinity Schools and Diversity
Imagine if someone claimed that Jesus was a capitalist. He might point to Jesus’s parable of the…
Letters
Heart’s Longings Jenna Silber Storey and Benjamin Storey’s article “Insight at First Sight” (May 2023) was perceptive and…
Rime Ice
He wouldn’t say her memory was lost But that she was lost in it—the foggy past Clung…
Escape from Irony
Dimes Square and Other Plays by matthew gasda applause, 284 pages, $22.95 Are you religious?” alcoholic rich…
John McPhee’s Work of a Lifetime
The inspiration for this column is one of the most wonderfully strange books I’ve encountered in a…
The Pagan Asceticism of Andrew Tate
In Andrew Tate’s recent interview with Tucker Carlson, the popular influencer and masculinity guru defended himself against…
The Left Is Reengineering the Human Soul. Our Children Are the Guinea Pigs.
The following is excerpted from America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything, out today from Broadside…
A Laborious, and Vacuous, Instrument
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A Parallel Polis
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Toe the Government Line or Lose Your Kids
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Latinity and Sanctity: Remembering Bishop Victor Galeone
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1619 Rightly Understood
African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals by david hackett fischer simon & schuster, 960 pages,…
