American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Red Flags in the SBC Response to Sexual Abuse

Aaron M. Renn

Judgment begins with the household of God. Evangelicals have frequently pointed out the sins of the world.…

Denizens of Concord

Mark Bauerlein

The Transcendentalists and Their Worldby robert a. grossfarrar, straus and giroux, 864 pages, $40 Why concord? That’s…

Incarnate Worship

Samira Kawash

In the first, surreal weeks of the lockdowns of 2020, we all marveled at how COVID had…

Transgenderism: Escaping Limits

R. R. Reno

The progressive imagination envisions a limitless future. Karl Marx thought that modern industrial production marked a new…

The Death and Life of Italian Families

Virginia Coda Nunziante

Italy, once the country of large families with many children, is today a country of the elderly.…

What Sex Really Is

Audrey Pollnow

The Right to Sex:Feminism in the Twenty-First Centuryby amia srinivasanfarrar, straus and giroux, 304 pages, $28 In…

Learning From the Saints of the Middle East

Samuel Sweeney

Eastern Christianity:A Readeredited by j. edward walterseerdmans, 439 pages, $55 A voice of sighs, of groaning, of…

How Men and Women See

Anthony Esolen

This essay is excerpted and adapted from No Apologies: Why Civilization Depends on the Strength of Men,…

What Orwell Learned From Chesterton

M. D. Aeschliman

The great writer and moralist George Orwell began his literary career as a disciple of G. K.…

The Sound of the Psalms

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. James M. Hamilton Jr. joins the podcast…

The Politics of Unhappiness

Ronald W. Dworkin

A  traffic jam, a shoe that ­pinches: It takes very little to ­ruin a nice day. Nothing…

Gender After Eden

Mary Harrington

The Genesis of Gender:A Christian Theoryby abigail favaleignatius, 248 pages, $17.95 Our departure from the Enlightenment is…

Holy Fear

Justin Lee

On at least two occasions, my father found himself in public showdowns with Mad Max, an itinerant…

Houellebecq’s Omelette

Theodore Dalrymple

Anéantirby michel houellebecqflammarion, 736 pages, $29 As Chekhov conveyed boredom without being boring, so Michel Houellebecq conveys…

The Bottom Line

David Novak

There are two facts of my life that my grandchildren used to tell their friends with pride.…