American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

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…

Taking Power in the Academy

Bruce Gilley

In September 2017, I published a peer-reviewed paper titled “The Case for Colonialism” in Third World Quarterly.…

Venice Afloat

Catesby Leigh

An observer of a Spenglerian bent might just write Venice off, taking the floods that afflict the…

Don’t Sanitize Abortion

John Waters

I would like to suggest a seventh rule to add to Mary Eberstadt’s “Six Rules for Pro-Life…

Beyond Amazonia

George Weigel

The post-synodal apostolic exhortation Querida Amazonia [Dear Amazonia] did not accept or endorse the 2019 Amazonian synod’s…

A Striking State of the Union Address

Mark Bauerlein

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

The Myth of Medieval Paganism

Francis Young

They don’t look very Christian—those strange faces made of leaves, and those women displaying cartoonishly enlarged genitals…

Letters

Various

Protestant Theology I don’t suppose it will be easy for Carl Trueman (“Turning Inward,” December 2019) and…

The World Turned Upside Down

Matthew Rose

Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the Worldby tom holland basic, 624 pages, $32 After the Second…

An Affair of Things

Robert Louis Wilken

Philip Larkin’s poem “Church Going” depicts his experience when, out for a ride on his bicycle, he…

Oppression by Indifference

Charles L. Glenn

Almost all Western democracies other than the United States provide public support to parents who wish to…

New York Remembers Fr. Neuhaus

Veronica Clarke

Last week, New Yorkers might have glimpsed this Fr. Richard John Neuhaus quote displayed on the LinkNYC…