American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Erasing Christianity from American History

Mark Bauerlein

It is a historical fact that Christianity played a central role in the colonization of the New…

Immigration Policy Is Hurting Rural Catholic Ministry

Robert Aaron Wessman

I love rural America. That love began in my formative years in Minnesota—working on a hog farm,…

Armenia and Azerbaijan’s Uncertain Peace

Mark Movsesian

This month at the White House, Armenia’s prime minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev shook…

The Real History of Black Progress (and Regress)

Mark Bauerlein

In the ​latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Jason Riley joins…

Proud to Be an American?

Christopher Parr

This July Fourth, you may have attended a local parade. If it was anything like mine, you…

War on the Weak and a Bad Bishop

R. R. Reno

A case study in brain-dead deconsolidation: marijuana legalization. Marijuana has been legal in New York State since…

Mamdani and the New Phase of Wokeness

Gregory Conti

What happened to wokeness? This is one of the most insistent questions in political commentary today. Do…

Nationalism Will Save the West

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Yoram Hazony joins in…

The Right to Be Killed

Matthew Burdette

In the days surrounding the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., leaders of the civil rights movement…

The Imperative of Reconsolidation

R. R. Reno

We often fail to recognize how deeply the traumas of the early twentieth century shaped American political…

The Great Excommunicator

Christopher Caldwell

When Sam Tanenhaus agreed in 1998 to write a biography of William F. Buckley Jr., it would…

The Post-Californian Ideology

Matthew Schmitz

On November 6, 1996, Al Gore called Peter Navarro to express his sympathy. Navarro, a left-leaning economics…

At Home and Abroad

The Editors

The editors discuss conservatism’s big wins at the Supreme Court and America’s military and diplomatic ventures in the…

Independence Day No. 249

George Weigel

In the twelve months leading up to next year’s American semiquincentennial, the tale will frequently be told…

The Fed and the College

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Brad Lingo joins in…