American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Kangaroo Canada
Mark Steyn is the author of the bestselling America Alone , a witty tirade against the decline…
The Very Autonomous Steven Pinker
In May, Steven Pinker published in the New Republic a jeremiad against dignity as a tool of…
Someone’s Property
Frederick Douglass: Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalism by Peter C. Myers University Press of Kansas,…
Scalia and the Lure of the Natural Law
Scenes from a dinner in Washington ten years ago: Irving Kristol: “What was in the Second Amendment,…
Looking for Mary in Christmas Carols
It’s Christmas, so we’re singing carols. OK, it’s not Christmas, it’s really Advent, and “carol” has a…
How to Think About the Responsibility to Protect
When Cyclone Nargis hit Burma a month ago, killing as many as a hundred thousand people, the…
The Transformation of Belfast
Belfast, Northern Ireland. For many people outside the British Isles, that name evokes images of shootings, bomb…
The Zone
A zone of promise throbs along / the horizon where May meets June. ...
Amis Amiss
Long, long ago, in the years just preceding the Second World War”as Germany was overrunning Czechoslovakia and…
Flight 175, Row 28
I know if I just sleep they’ll go away. / The person sitting next to me is…
More on the Ethics of Immigration
William W. Chip writes: In “The Ethics of Immigration,” a debate in last month’s issue of First…
The Widow of Niam
I follow the rank corpse, holding my breath, / prepared to bury my son forevermore...
Zionism for Christians
Israel always matters . Biblical scholars have devoted endless pages to ancient Israel as a religious idea,…
Briefly Noted 218
Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal by Rob Riemen Yale, 160 pages, $22 This is an admirable…
The Rare Achievement of Disagreement
Look, when we think about ending an early human life, this is something that is really bad…
