American Politics

A selection of recent articles on this topic

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…

Death and Dappled Hope

Leah Libresco Sargeant

Promise Me, Dad:A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purposeby joe bidenflatiron books, 272 pages, $27 Many politicians’…

Queen Elizabeth, Woman of Mystery

Ramona Tausz

There are some disadvantages to crowns, but otherwise, they’re quite important things.” So says Elizabeth II in…

Last of the Pro-Life Democrats Under Fire

John Murdock

And then there were three. That is how many pro-life Democrats remain in the House of Representatives.…

The Carnage of Casual Sex

Charlotte Allen

The identity of “Grace”—the 23-year-old woman whose bad date with P.C. comedian Aziz Ansari became the latest…

Proofs for God in the Pret A Manger Age

Dan Hitchens

Belief in God’s existence is not just a leap of faith; it is a reasonable conclusion which…

The Eschatological Hope of Bearing Children

Ian Caveny

Stop bearing children.” So says one of a cadre of new environmental voices decrying the dangers of…

The War on the Hippocratic Oath

Wesley J. Smith

I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with…

James and Melville, Two American Minds

Junior Fellows

In this series, the First Things junior fellows share mini-essays on their current reading endeavors.  Connor GrubaughAssistant Editor Sociologists…

Prisoners Are Not Animals

Alexi Sargeant

Last week, Dr. Lawrence G. Nassar was sentenced to 40–175 years in prison for many counts of…

Tom Cotton and the Raging Infants

Pete Spiliakos

Indignant anti-Trump liberals are both bold and scared. On the one hand, they make exaggerated and unpopular…

Eight Theses on Sex

Hans Boersma

First, sex is searching for God. I purposely put this thesis up front, as number one. Sex…

Taylor Swift, Nazi Barbie?

Dominic Green

January is Taylor Swift month in the Green household. If, like me, you have three young daughters,…

Phenomenology of the Hand

Mark Bauerlein

If you teach high school or college students, or have kids who are passing through those ­places,…

To a Certain Controversial Public Personality

Hal Colebatch

Insulting social conventionHas been your stock in trade,But I doubt you’ll be forgivenThe scandal you’ve now made.…