American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Using Christ to Sell Cars
In his brilliant critique of late-twentieth-century American culture, Technopoly, the late Neil Postman described what he called…
Parsing the “T”
About five years ago, a friend took her son with her when she went to a beauty…
Jokers and “Xenophobes”
One of the most infuriating things to happen to journalism in the era of internet media and…
Lent at Planned Parenthood
A few days ago I did something I’d never done before: I joined a group of people…
Poland’s Baby Bump
In 2015, Poland’s conservative Law and Justice Party proposed a plan called “500+ Families,” which would give…
Your Mind Uploaded in a Computer Would Not Be You
Man, who is born of woman, is short-lived and full of turmoil. Like a flower he comes…
Reince Priebus and the GOP’s Moral Disaster
The annual Conservative Political Action Conference was stimulating. Some writers took the opportunity to chart the decline…
Sacred Sociology
The Sacred Project of American Sociologyby christian smithoxford, 224 pages, $28.95 Things wouldn’t be so bad if…
Blacklisted
I am the last living blacklisted Hollywood writer. I can’t prove this any more than I could legally…
Illiberal Democracy
Demopolis: Democracy Before Liberalism in Theory and Practiceby josiah obercambridge, 222 pages, $24.90 Liberal democracy is a…
Letters
Evangelism While I appreciated Robert Barron’s 2017 Erasmus Lecture, “Evangelizing the Nones” (January), the bishop overestimates the…
Political Supersessionism
Last spring I attended a conference at the newly established St. Olaf Institute for Freedom and Community,…
The Call to Gift
This text is adapted from the funeral homily for Don J. Briel, professor at the University of…
My Protestant Oscar Predictions
I make a point of never watching the Oscars. If I want to waste four hours of…
Bullets for Babies
Fill in the blank: No new law will ever stop a determined person from getting a(n) _______.…
