American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

The Sex Education We Need

Abigail Rine Favale

Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions About Life and Sexualityby nancy pearceybaker books, 336 pages, $22.99 Love…

Of Books and Baseball

John Wilson

I’m grateful to the editors of First Things for the invitation to take up this column, which…

Adoption and the Firing of Kevin Williamson

Dale M. Coulter

I have been following the controversy over the firing of Kevin Williamson from The Atlantic for his…

The Unspeakable Pleasure

Leonard Sax

Isabelle Robinson describes sitting in the school cafeteria in seventh grade, when a boy threw an apple…

Why Does Religion Need Commandments?

Reuven Ziegler

What is the point of the myriad commandments governing every aspect of a Jew’s life? Why does…

Notes from the Sibling Society

John Waters

The “snowflakes” problem is not really a snowflakes problem: It is the result of an absence not…

A Tradition Unlike Any Other

Brandon McGinley

If you tune in to CBS at 2 p.m. on the second Sunday of April, you will…

Conscience of a Kennedy

Charles Donovan

A cruel April is at hand for the memory of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Tomorrow…

Diversity and Meritocracy, Together

R. R. Reno

Do our elite universities prize academic merit? Or are they more concerned to achieve diversity? Most of…

Air Turbulence and the Resurrection

George Weigel

If there’s anything Catholics in the United States should have learned over the past two decades, it’s…

Xi Jinping’s Village

Dan Hitchens

In Liangjiahe, a small village in central China, visitors can tour the sites that formed Xi Jinping.…

The Weak Lead Us to Reality

Leah Libresco Sargeant

Summer in the Forest, Randall Wright’s documentary on Jean Vanier and his L’Arche communities for the disabled,…

Stephen Hawking, Surprised by Joy?

Charlotte Allen

Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot got in trouble when she tweeted on March 14, the day of…

BDS Has Failed

Eugene Korn

I am a rabbi who is often asked how to improve Christian relations with Jews. I’m grateful that…

City of the Chosen

Dominic Green

Welcome to Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138! We’re a college town, home to Harvard, MIT, and a very large…