American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Behind the Curtain of Assisted Suicide Advocacy
The United States assisted suicide movement claims that it wants only a limited “reform” of law and…
Decline is a Choice (Partly)
Ross Douthat is right to say that the decline of the Oscars was overdetermined—but the rapidity, extent,…
Holy Madness
Surely somewhere in Emile Durkheim or Max Weber is a reflection on religiosity and March Madness. The…
Liberal Integralism
I’m baffled when people warn of the dangers of “Catholic integralism.” Last year, the Jesuit magazine La…
Learning from the White Rose
Seventy-five years ago last month, Sophie and Hans Scholl and their friend Christian Probst were executed by…
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…
