American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
Politics and the Sacred
Bret Stephens recently championed the “classically liberal concept of a neutral public square.” In this issue, Matthew…
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—Aug/Sept 2019
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.…
How Revolutions End
Anna Młynik-Shawcross didn’t see it coming. “There was definitely a feeling, from the mid-80s, that it was never…
Lessons in Virtue From Apollo 11
Fifty years ago this week, the crew of Apollo 11, the world’s latest heroes, were doing decidedly…
Beyond Libertarianism
This essay is an abridged version of a speech originally delivered on July 16, 2019, at the…
Boris Johnson’s Challenge
The advent of Boris Johnson as British prime minister has a feeling of inevitability about it. Theresa…
On the New “Nationalism”
Thanks to President Trump’s “America First” rhetoric and the rise of populist-nationalist parties in Europe, there’s a…
The Boris Act
The name of Britain’s new prime minister isn’t actually “Boris.” “Boris” is a stage name, jokey and…
Resurrection in Albania
A visit to Albania today reminds the traveler of the worst of modernity and the fall of…
Reordering the Public Square
In the ongoing intra-conservative debates, some have argued that it is the role of government to enforce…
