American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
Concerning Bullshit
Princeton University, as its graduates will gladly tell you, is the real treasure of the Ivy League.…
Playing Church
An Associated Press feel-good story surfaced recently concerning the festive send-off and theatrical suicide of a 75-year-old…
French and Ahmari Enter the Ring
For much of their debate, hosted on Thursday at Catholic University of America, David French and Sohrab Ahmari were talking past each other. When…
As “The League” Begins Its Centennial Season
By the Gargantuan standards of the 21st-century National Football League, Gino Marchetti, who died April 29, was…
Prosperity Breeds Idiots
At the start of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s novel In the First Circle, a Soviet diplomat on home leave…
The End of the News
Before I began to write for newspapers, I used to deliver them—not door to door, but by…
An Era of Chameleons
Scruffy and stocky, he enters every room with backslapping joviality; she is elegant and willowy, and impresses…
The Fate of Hong Kong’s Christians
Christians in Hong Kong overwhelmingly support the mass protests that have disrupted the region for the last…
