American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Everything Is America
The editors discuss Trump’s renaming craze and its implications for international politics, the decay of academia in…
The End of Populism?
Have you noticed the recent flood of commentaries and articles in the mainstream media dwelling on why…
The Meaning of 1776
On the night he was elected president, in November 2008, Barack Obama addressed a throng in Chicago…
The Douthat Decade
For conservative Christian nerds it is a hammer blow. Imagine the grief and shock if Taylor Swift…
The Spiritual Appeal of Democratic Socialism
As a proud “Reagan Democrat,” I felt blessed to be in Berlin a few days after the…
AOC’s Illogical Case for Egg Freezing
This is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s week. Amid the backlash over her cavalier dismissal of “Woke 1”—the era of…
The Truth About Truth API
Five years ago, the most powerful media companies in the world—Facebook and Twitter, as it was then…
America Has Always Been a Christian Nation
America is a Christian nation. It was at its birth, and despite increasing attacks on this reality,…
Ban the Books
Walk into a bookstore anywhere in the country. Chances are that, somewhere toward the front, you’ll see…
How the Press Lost Public Trust
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Tara Henley joins…
Mad as Hell
In a simpler time, the internet was full of cats. Flooding message boards and YouTube with images…
The Founders and the Common Good
The dominant public philosophy among American elites is modern liberalism, often referred to merely as “liberalism.” Two…
The Enemy Within
The Information State is one of the most important books of the twenty-first century. In a virtuoso…
It’s Cool to Love America Again
The media would like you to know that the Great American State Fair, which took over the…
Letters—August/September 2026
My first thought on “Boomer–Zoomer Housing War” by Carmel Richardson was the title; my second thought after…
