American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Big Addiction
According to my iPhone, I pick up my phone 177 times each day and spend 26 hours…
The Fertility Trap
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Declineby john ibbitson and darrell brickercrown, 304 pages, $26 Malthusianism…
Why We Read Memoirs
In June, the New York Times published a list of “The Best 50 Memoirs of the Last…
How Not to Restore American Industry
For every complex problem,” H. L. Mencken said, “there is an answer that is clear, simple and…
Extraordinary Coincidence, Contemporary Lesson
Forty years after Pope John Paul II bent the course of the 20th century in a more…
Scandal in South Carolina
A priest was recently placed on administrative leave in my own Diocese of Charleston. Fr. Raymond Flores,…
The Rot in Our Ruling Class
Twenty dead in El Paso. Nine more in Ohio. Both shootings are malicious acts to be condemned.…
Taleb’s Call to Duel
Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Claire Lehmann seemed like natural allies: Both are contrarian, entrepreneurial free thinkers. But…
Calling Joe Biden to Repentance
During the most recent round of Democratic party debates, abortion was noticeably the dog that didn’t bark…
The Epistle of James in the Current Crisis
The Epistle of James strikes us as a letter of perennial wisdom. James encourages his readers to…
Cosmopolite Panic
A friend recently wrote to me, informing me we have fallen out over Brexit. He notes in…
Woke Totemism
A year ago in April, a student group at the university where I teach invited Amy Wax,…
Briefly Noted
The End is Music: A Companion to Robert W. Jenson’s Theologyby chris e. w. greencascade, 107 pages,…
Letters
Immigration Reinhold Niebuhr’s Christian realism, which was lately set forth in Matthew Schmitz’s “Immigration Idealism” (May), famously…
The Demon in Middlebury
The invitation from Middlebury College to speak about my book The Demon in Democracy came last year.…
