American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Magisterial Liberalism

Ed Condon

Pride month has once again come and gone. As in previous years, entire sections of major cities…

Anti-Bigotry and Liberal Power

R. R. Reno

Fascism, genocide, the Holocaust, Hitler, and The Handmaid’s Tale. Racism, white nationalism, and homophobia. Not a day…

American Hinterland

Daniel DeCarlo

Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflictby phil a. neeluniversity of chicago, 192 pages, $20 In…

John Bel Edwards for President

John Murdock

When the twenty debating Democrats take the stage this week, not one will defend the Hyde Amendment—the…

Interpreting the Bladensburg Cross Case

Mark Movsesian

Last week, the Supreme Court decided the much-awaited Bladensburg Cross case, American Legion v. American Humanist Association. …

Public Faith and the Peace Cross

Ed Condon

On Thursday, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case American Legion v. American Humanist…

Trump Among Evangelicals

Peter J. Leithart

It’s a widely cited statistic: 81 percent of evangelicals voted for Donald Trump. The thrice-married, trash-talking, wheeling-dealing…

Hawley Defends the Public Square

Jon Schweppe

Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri introduced a controversial Big Tech bill yesterday. His detractors claim he wants…

The Dictatorship of Woke Capital

Tom Cotton

This essay was originally delivered as a speech in the U. S. Senate on June 19, 2019.…

The Unaccountable Silences of Bret Baier

Hadley Arkes

Ever since Brit Hume receded from his role in anchoring the Fox evening news, there has been…

Whose Republic? Which “Liberalism”?

George Weigel

Extra credit question: Name the author of this admonition about the insecure cultural foundations and potentially perilous…

Flightless Birds

David T. Koyzis

My paternal grandparents were born in Cyprus as subjects of the sultan in Constantinople, albeit under British…

French, Ahmari, and the Common Good

C. C. Pecknold

American conservatives are confusedly divided over how to judge our politics. They are disputing whether we need…

Accommodating Injustice

Darel E. Paul

In his advice to princes, Niccolò Machiavelli observed, “there are two kinds of fighting: the one with…