I’ve been dreading this November for the past year. In half a century of voting, I’ve been worried or frustrated by our public life many times. But 2020 has a unique toxicity, as if the whole nation were heaving, rudderless, on an ocean of poisonous blame. There is no peace and no dignity in our . . . . Continue Reading »
Beginning with his essay “The Flight 93 Election,” published by the Claremont Review of Books in September 2016, Michael Anton has become famous—and infamous—as the foremost intellectual defender of the current president. One can read his new book, The Stakes: America . . . . Continue Reading »
Like John F. Kennedy before him, Joe Biden has submerged his religious faith in his partisan loyalty, betraying his religion. Continue Reading »
Biden’s policies on almost every domestic social issue are as extreme as any proposed by a major party presidential candidate in recent memory. Continue Reading »
It is fatuous to dismiss concerns over the rinsing-out of religious freedom as the overwrought fretting of culture warriors. Continue Reading »
Public life should be ordered by the great moral truths found in the Scriptures, in our civil traditions, as well as in reasonable thought. Continue Reading »
If secular progressives can identify as “devout Catholics,” then surely I can identify as a “secular progressive.” Continue Reading »
Joe Biden will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2020. Continue Reading »
Ireland is in cultural, social, and economic meltdown, and nobody seems willing to do things that might reverse this dissolution. Continue Reading »
Mr. Johnson has portrayed himself as the new Blair, a friendly figurehead who appears unthreatening while concealing a vast agenda of change. Continue Reading »
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