The Cheapest Date in American Politics?

by Greg Forster

David French says social conservatives risk becoming a laughingstock. Unfortunately, he understates his case. Continue Reading »

3 Aug 2016

Trump, Kaine, and More Illusions

by George Weigel

Our deeply wounded political culture has produced two impossible options in the 2016 Republican and Democratic tickets. Continue Reading »

3 Aug 2016

The Politics of Solidarity: A Case for the American Solidarity Party

by David McPherson

We need a politics that can speak authentically in the language of love, protect all human beings from conception to natural death, enliven our sense of a shared past and a shared future rooted in a common good, and build bridges and not just walls. This is what the American Solidarity Party seeks to do. Continue Reading »

29 Jul 2016

After Reaganism: What’s Next for Traditional Conservatives?

by Carson Holloway

If Reaganism as a political program is dead, then politically active religious conservatives must think about what new political coalition they might join with a view to defending their core principles and otherwise promoting the common good. Continue Reading »

28 Jul 2016

Homelessness, Party-Style

by George Weigel

Catholics aren’t wrong to feel that the Democrats and the Republicans have left them. Continue Reading »

27 Jul 2016

Saints Marching in the Streets

by Jordan Zajac

As the Republican National Convention gets underway, and anxiety mounts over protests and public safety in Cleveland, it’s worthwhile to reflect on Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati’s brand of political activism. Continue Reading »

15 Jul 2016

The Irrelevance of Hillary’s Peccadilloes

by R. R. Reno

In other circumstances, the bad odor of the Clintons would be off-putting. But our leadership class has just received a shock: They have become aware that their consensus isn’t as widely shared as they imagined. Continue Reading »

8 Jul 2016

Left or Right, No One Is Happy

by R. R. Reno

An earthquake is coming. Continue Reading »

14 Jun 2016

Why I'm Anti-Anti-Trump

by R. R. Reno

It's time for our political intelligensia to wake up. So argues Walter Russell Mead in a thoughtful piece in The American Interest, “The Meaning of Mr. Trump.” Forget about handicapping the race between Trump and Clinton. Forget about itemizing Trump's liabilities and failings. What's important . . . . Continue Reading »

25 May 2016

“To Trump, or Not to Trump”

by Alexi Sargeant

To Trump, or not to Trump, that is the question.
Whether ’tis nobler in the land to suffer
The tweets and twaddles of outrageous baseness
Or to take arms against an orange menace
And, by opposing…do what? . . . . Continue Reading »

4 May 2016