American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Divinity Schools and Diversity

Gerald McDermott

Imagine if someone claimed that Jesus was a capitalist. He might point to Jesus’s parable of the…

Letters

Various

Heart’s Longings Jenna Silber Storey and Benjamin Storey’s article “Insight at First Sight” (May 2023) was perceptive and…

Rime Ice

Daniel Luttrull

He wouldn’t say her memory was lost But that she was lost in it—the foggy past Clung…

Escape from Irony

Dan Hitchens

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

John Wilson

The inspiration for this column is one of the most wonderfully strange books I’ve encountered in a…

The Pagan Asceticism of Andrew Tate

Jonathan Culbreath

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.

Christopher Rufo

The following is excerpted from America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything, out today from Broadside…

A Laborious, and Vacuous, Instrument

George Weigel

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A Parallel Polis

Inez Stepman

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Toe the Government Line or Lose Your Kids

Carl R. Trueman

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Latinity and Sanctity: Remembering Bishop Victor Galeone

George Weigel

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1619 Rightly Understood

Wilfred M. McClay

African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals by david hackett fischer simon & schuster, 960 pages,…

Letters

Various

The Night Is Far Gone My deep thanks to Brad East for his piece on doing theology…

Postcard: The Swans at the Royal Botanic Gardens

Daniel Rattelle

“But are they sad?” I overheard her say. No more than five Up North with mum for…

Calvinism 2.0

James R. Wood

Neo-Calvinism: A Theological Introductionby cory c. brock and n. gray sutantolexham academic, 320 pages, $36.99  Abraham Kuyper…