The Midterms and the “We” Questions
by R. R. RenoTrump is making us address the most important question in any democratic polity: Who are we? Continue Reading »
Muslims in American Politics
by Paul Rowan BrianIn the summer of 2017, something unusual happened at the Islamic Society of North America’s (ISNA) annual conference in Chicago. A table set up by Muslims for Progressive Values (MPV) in partnership with Human Rights Campaign (HRC) was removed after an attendee complained. The booth had been . . . . Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousDEADLY DESERTS Paul Griffiths’s sneering review of our book, By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed (“Against Capital Punishment,” December 2017), illustrates how much bile—and how little charity—is often to be found in those who speak the loudest of mercy and humanity. Griffiths suggests . . . . Continue Reading »
A Fanatic of the Center
by R. R. RenoGeorge W. Bush's speech last week clarified the deep agreement between his agenda and that of center-left Democrats. Continue Reading »
Sex and Sin in Protestant America
by Joshua MitchellThe now infamous second presidential debate was a spectacle that few decent Americans want to witness again. It was also a spectacular one-act recapitulation of the four-hundred-year-long drama of sex and sin in Protestant America. Continue Reading »
Does Liberal Catholicism
Have a Future?
by The Editors
Plus: Pokémon Go and American Insecurity. First Things Podcast, Episode 2. Continue Reading »
Persuasion Anxiety
by Micah HarrisOur country, being democratic, sends its cultural elites through cycles of high anxiety that the people will be duped into making some spectacularly bad decisions. This anxiety has led to an obsession with the methods of public persuasion.
Anger and Citizenship
by George WeigelThe Iowa caucuses are in the rear-view mirror, the New Hampshire primary looms on the horizon, and by most media accounts, the leitmotif of Campaign 2016 is “anger.” As in: a lot-of-Americans-are-angry-and-that-explains-the attraction-of-certain-candidates, whether that be the . . . . Continue Reading »
Socialism in America?
by David T. KoyzisAmericans once regarded socialism with a mixture of fear and bemusement. Why then have so many lost this fear such that they are prepared to put a socialist in the Oval Office? Continue Reading »
Religion and Presidential Voting Patterns
by Greg ForsterThis just in: Jerry Falwell is still dead Continue Reading »
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