American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Formation for Worship

Hans Boersma

Cultural Liturgies, Vol. 1–3 by james k. a. smith baker academic, 720 pages, $69.99 The Christian faith…

Happiness for All

Mark Bauerlein

A few years ago, when a group of students at Emory University prepared to demonstrate against a controversial…

We Love Big Brother

Peter Hitchens

Good heavens, this is hard to write. To experience a national humiliation and shame is one thing.…

Letters

Various

Identitarians Theodore Dalrymple (“Identity as Ideology,” February) is certainly correct to point to the yearning for transcendence…

Coronavirus Diary: New York, March 30

R. R. Reno

Monday. I check my phone when I wake up. There’s a text from my wife’s cousin, a…

Coronavirus Diary: New York, March 26

R. R. Reno

Thursday. Brilliant sunshine and cold, crisp air. I take Lucy for her walk. We linger in a…

Music in the Time of the Virus

Jan Vogler

I grew up in East Berlin, so I’m familiar with the feeling of being walled in and…

Studying the Western Tradition in Wyoming

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Glenn…

Always the Era of the Saints

Francis X. Maier

There’s a natural human tendency to attach magic powers to slogans, which then replace serious thought and…

The Religion of Identity Politics

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, David Azerrad…

Emma Unframed

Veronica Clarke

Some say that Emma is the least likeable of Jane Austen’s heroines. Austen herself admitted as much,…

Marriage of Genius

Helen Andrews

The Dolphin Letters, 1970–1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circleby elizabeth hardwick and robert lowell edited…

Prurient History

Ulrich L. Lehner

The Nuns of Sant’Ambrogioby hubert wolf vintage, 496 pages, $17 Sex sells, all the more if one…

Replace the Elite

Patrick J. Deneen

The New Class War:Saving Democracy from the Managerial Eliteby michael lindportfolio, 224 pages, $25 Michael Lind’s The…

For and Against Integralism

Michael Hanby

Modernity does not just refer to the time in which we happen to live, the era that…