American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Harrison Butker’s Speech Wasn’t for Us

Catherine Ruth Pakaluk

Consider a twenty-eight-year-old family man, a devoted Catholic, a handsome, celebrated NFL kicker, invited to offer words…

America’s Working Class vs Elites

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Batya Ungar-Sargon joins the…

The Miracle of a Baseball

Finnegan Schick

“Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and…

Mere Priestesses

Blake Johnson

Controversy surrounds the disinvitation of Fr. Calvin Robinson from the closing panel of the Mere Anglicanism conference…

The Gardener

Richard Tillinghast

While drums pounded and cymbals / Drove men mad and bronze siege cannon / Pulverized walls built…

The Defrocking of Father AI

Leah Libresco Sargeant

Father Justin was rightly defrocked within two days of his public debut. “Father Justin” was the name…

Stopping the Transgender Conveyor Belt

Luke Goodrich

Almost everyone agrees that rates of transgender identification are skyrocketing, especially among young girls. But nobody seems…

Mother Scholar

Leilani Mueller

A quote from a Dorothy L. Sayers novel has lately been on my mind. “I was a…

The Anti-Fragile Brendan Eich

Andrew Beck

Ten years ago this week, Brendan Eich was forced to resign as CEO of Mozilla, the company…

Easter Above the Arctic Circle

Nicholas Reid

The signs are everywhere: “No outside shoes,” “Use shoe coverings,” or “If your shoes are muddy, take…

Fraternity Against the Great Domestication

Scott Yenor Skyler Kressin

Sometime in 2023, a local chapter meeting of the Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR) closed amid…

The Remarkable Legacies of Ordinary Catholic Women

Bronwen McShea

The following is excerpted and adapted from Bronwen McShea’s new book, Women of the Church: What Every…

Results May Vary

Audrey Pollnow

The Best Effect: Theology and the Origins of Consequentialismby ryan darruniversity of chicago, 320 pages, $35 When I…

Nourishing Mystery

John Schwenkler

The Eucharist in Modern Philosophyby xavier tilliette, translated by jonathan martin ciraulocatholic university of america, 200 pages,…

The Ends of the Earth

Richard Tillinghast

The wind shears through hardwoods, / then rain brings down the leaves / here, eight thousand miles…