Making Sense of It
by Francis X. MaierMaybe the only satisfying thing about the November 8 election of Donald Trump as president was the shock on the part of America’s pollsters, media, and leadership class, as the inconceivable actually happened.
Why did it happen? Continue Reading »
Trump, Evangelicals, Religion, and the 2016 Exit Polls
by Darren GuerraOne major theme of this election year has been the role of evangelical voters in Donald Trump’s electoral success. To be sure, there has been much division among evangelical leaders and the evangelical rank-and-file over whether or not to support Trump. Given the controversy, it is worth exploring . . . . Continue Reading »
A Tale of Two Marxisms
by Carl R. TruemanMarxism has triumphed in America. And while it isn’t the Marxism we expected, it is the one we deserve. Continue Reading »
Election 2016
by R. R. RenoIt’s a full-throated endorsement of Donald Trump’s candidacy. Written with pungency, “The Flight 93 Election” was published on the Claremont Review of Books website under the name Publius Decius Mus, a fourth-century b.c. Roman consul whose heroic self-sacrifice in battle saved the day for . . . . Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousDeplorableIn his August/September column, “Bigot-Baiting,” R. R. Reno charges that the Democratic Party is largely a hodgepodge of various groups, tenuously allied, and that the precarious nature of these alliances requires a well-maintained persecution complex, lest those alliances dissolve. In . . . . Continue Reading »
Where I Was Wrong Part II: Iraq
by Pete SpiliakosPerhaps no error looms larger in contemporary American politics than Iraq. 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 »
Making Better Men
by Alexi SargeantLet us not confuse a stumbling search for chivalry with the different and dingier paradigm of manliness we see too many public figures pursuing. Continue Reading »
Where I Was Wrong Part I: The Filibuster
by Pete SpiliakosIf we don’t give voters a more accountable Congress, don’t be surprised if they want an unaccountable president to take down a corrupt and unresponsive system. Consider Trump a warning. Continue Reading »
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