Why 42 Had to be Impeached Twenty Years Ago
by George WeigelThe impeachment of Bill Clinton was a matter of defending the rule of law. Continue Reading »
How We Normalized Trump
by Pete SpiliakosWe didn’t normalize Trump's immorality when he won the election; we normalized Trump when we overlooked Bill Clinton's vices. Continue Reading »
The John the Baptist of Post-Truth Politics
by Pete SpiliakosMore than any other politician, Clinton prepared the public for the devil’s bargain Trump would later make with his supporters. 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 »
Against Optimism
by Pete SpiliakosSurely it is less important that a speech be optimistic or pessimistic, than that it be true to the realities of the moment, true to the capabilities of the government, and true to the responsibilities of the citizenry. Continue Reading »
It’s the Culture, Stupid!
by James L. GuthWhat really happened in the 1992 presidential election? And what does it tell us about American politics at the turn of the century? Although postmortems are always a tricky business, interpreting the 1992 election is particularly so. The defeat of an incumbent President, the election of the first . . . . Continue Reading »
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