American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Letters
Jurisprudence Hadley Arkes, echoing themes he has developed for many years in his work, offers a forceful…
Catholicism Made Me Protestant
Like all accounts of God’s faithfulness, mine begins with a genealogy. In the late seventeenth century, my…
Of Cigarettes and Grace
The dramatic action of grace is rooted in Christology: Christ descended into the world and passed through the…
Britain’s Constitutional Crisis
The United Kingdom has a constitutional crisis. Prime Minister Boris Johnson leads a minority Conservative government that…
The Judicial Usurpation of Parliament
Far too often nowadays I have that disturbing feeling of walking on a thin crust suspended over…
Twitteracusis
The most debilitating aspects of my current illness (Ramsay Hunt Syndrome) have been those associated with my…
Newman at the Amazon Synod
A spectre is haunting the preparations for next month’s Amazon Synod: the spectre of John Henry Newman,…
What’s at Stake in the French-Ahmari Debate?
One wag has called it the “Franco-Persian War.” The debate between David French and Sohrab Ahmari has…
The Dangers of Workism
Sen. Marco Rubio recently wrote that the purpose of economic policymaking is to ensure that people have…
Help My Unbelief
My brother committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in the fall of 1980. It was a gut-wrenching…
All You Need Is Jesus
I’ve been to see the “good-time movie of the summer”: Yesterday, the story of a world in…
Hitler the Progressive
Has the mass murder of Europe’s Jews eclipsed the other significant horrors of Hitler’s Germany? Does it…
Penguin Dysphoria
At a young age I knew more about Viking rune stones and fifteenth-century Venetian commerce than is…
Australian Justice in the Dock
Consider this sequence of events, familiar to some but evidently not to others: March 2013: Prior to…
Renewing the Transatlantic Alliance
In June, German politician Norbert Röttgen offered a sober assessment of the frayed relations between the European…
