American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
How Secularization Happens
Way back in the day, when Elon Musk stalked the halls of the federal bureaucracy swinging his…
A Declaration of American Dignity
The State of the Union message to Congress is mandated in the Constitution. But it does not…
Dimes Square: An Oral History (ft. Nick Allen)
In this episode, Sovereign House and Reign founder Nick Allen joins Virginia and Germán to discuss Dimes…
Ralston College’s Human Endeavour (ft. Stephen Blackwood)
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Stephen Blackwood joins…
Europe’s Fate Is America’s Business
"In a second Trump term,” said former national security advisor John Bolton to the Washington Post almost…
A Critique of the New Right Misses Its Target
American conservatism has produced a bewildering number of factions over the years, and especially over the last…
A Commitment to Remembrance (ft. Andrew Zwerneman)
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Andrew Zwerneman joins…
How Hipsters Gave Us Trump
Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign was powered by its embrace of the white working class. It also…
Tim Walz’s K–12 Racial Ideology Regime
President Trump has flooded my home state of Minnesota with investigators and law enforcement agents to address…
While We’re At It
January 8 marked the seventeenth anniversary of Fr. Richard John Neuhaus’s death. We owe the existence of…
The Case of the Missing Mayor
On January 1, newly inaugurated Mayor Zohran Mamdani made a solemn vow to his constituents: “I promise…
The Limits of Universalism: An Exchange
As an American Jew and close friend and colleague of Robert George, it is easy for me…
Might Does Not Always Make Right, or Even Sense
The “Melian Dialogue,” from Thucydides’s classic History of the Peloponnesian War, is the foundational text of the realist…
Gavin Newsom’s Vogue Politics
When Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1980, I was living in England and briefly became an…
Madness in Minneapolis
It’s tempting, given the pace of our news cycle these days, to resist the urge to crown…
