American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Letters

Various

Evangelism While I appreciated Robert Barron’s 2017 Erasmus Lecture, “Evangelizing the Nones” (January), the bishop overestimates the…

Political Supersessionism

Robert Benne

Last spring I attended a conference at the newly established St. Olaf Institute for Freedom and Community,…

The Call to Gift

James P. Shea

This text is adapted from the funeral homily for Don J. Briel, professor at the University of…

My Protestant Oscar Predictions

Carl R. Trueman

I make a point of never watching the Oscars. If I want to waste four hours of…

Bullets for Babies

John Murdock

Fill in the blank: No new law will ever stop a determined person from getting a(n) _______.…

Canada’s Pro-Abortion Politics

Charlotte Allen

In December 2017, Canada’s Liberal Party government, headed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, barred organizations that oppose…

Bros Against Humanity

Justin Lee

Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valleyby emily changportfolio, 320 pages, $28 Near the end…

When I Met Christ

John Waters

They had taken my watch, so I don’t know what time it was when I began to…

Brexit and Enlightenment Man

Dan Hitchens

Scene: the carriage of a London underground train. It is past midnight. The pubs have closed, the parties…

Not Their Finest Hour

Peter Hitchens

Why are we still obsessed with 1940? Anyone who experienced World War II as an adult is…

Why the 2018 “Gerber Baby” Choice is So Important

Wesley J. Smith

Each year, Gerber, the baby food manufacturer, holds a “cute baby” photo contest, the winner of which…

The Impossibility of “Alt-Right Christianity”

Connor Grubaugh

I am not anti-Christian. I’m a Lutheran,” says Hunter Wallace, an alt-right blogger cited in Matthew Rose’s…

How We Normalized Trump

Pete Spiliakos

Books could be (and have been) written on the theme of Donald Trump as immoral and demagogic.…

The Burdensome Myth of Romantic Love

David C. Dollahite and Betsy VanDenBerghe

A collection of Einstein’s letters auctioned off in 1996 contains a list of marital expectations for his…

Lenten Fasting Biohacks

Kendall Vanderslice and Hal Koss

Would you like your repentance to yield some return on investment this Lent? Perhaps in the form…