Chronicles as Political Theology
by Peter J. LeithartModern rulers can learn political lessons from 1 and 2 Chronicles: Battles aren’t won with superior force, but by reliance on the God of heaven. Continue Reading »
The Roy Moore Postmortem
by John MurdockWhen Doug Jones defeated Roy Moore, the pro-life cause took a bullet but dodged a grenade. Continue Reading »
Politics After Liberalism
by Phillip BlondThe Politics of Virtue: Post-Liberalism and the Human Futureby john milbank and adrian pabstrowman and littlefield, 418 pages, $39.95 Among the ideas that compete to determine the world’s future, one can count Catholicism, Islam, and (until recently) Marxism. But only one is dominant, . . . . Continue Reading »
Culture is Downstream of Politics
by Maggie Gallagher and Frank CannonWalk into any room full of Christian conservative donors, and someone will say, “Politics is downstream of culture.” Every head in the room will nod. Nothing is more entrenched as conventional wisdom among Christian conservatives. Like most truisms, this one is only partly true. As people change . . . . Continue Reading »
Donald Trump, Principe
by Carson HollowayLast year, Christian conservatives had serious reservations about Donald Trump. I was among them. But many of us voted for him anyway. For most, the calculation was straightforward. The end—protecting ourselves, our children, and our country from an increasingly hostile . . . . Continue Reading »
Trump in Poland
by Ryszard LegutkoWhat made the majority of Poles particularly disposed to welcome Trump was precisely what makes him a hate-figure in Germany and among many in his own nation: Trump is thought to be a dissenter. He dissents from the ideologically correct mainstream politics that has been stifling Western civilization for some time. Continue Reading »
The Southern Poverty Law Center Bears False Witness
by Samuel D. JamesA recent lawsuit reveals the intolerance behind the SPLC's list of “hate groups.” Continue Reading »
The Left Bank of the Rhine
by Edmund WaldsteinThe death of former chancellor Helmut Kohl marks the definitive end of the post-war period in German politics. Continue Reading »
The Three Necessary Societies
by Russell HittingerRerum Novarum (1891) begins with this sentence: “That the spirit of new things [revolutionary change], which has long been disturbing the nations of the world, should have passed beyond the sphere of politics and made its influence felt in the cognate sphere of practical economics is not . . . . Continue Reading »
Pick Your Poison
by Pete SpiliakosA removal of Trump would, absent some great show of wisdom from our elites, contribute to the embittering of our politics. Continue Reading »
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