John Bel Edwards for President
by John MurdockPro-life Democrat John Bel Edwards could challenge Donald Trump in 2020. Continue Reading »
Flightless Birds
by David T. KoyzisThe separation of Christians and Muslims in Cyprus points to the destructive potential of ideology. Continue Reading »
Sohrab Ahmari Is Right
by Matthew SchmitzCivility must be ordered to a higher good, or it is no good at all. Continue Reading »
The Fusionism That Failed
by Ben SixsmithUnderstanding the upheavals of American conservatism requires the study of its history—in particular, the fortunes of Frank Meyer, inventor of the Cold War synthesis that reigned for decades as conservative orthodoxy and has only recently met with serious challenge. Like many other figures . . . . Continue Reading »
Broken Family, Broken Country
by John WatersMy Father Left Me Ireland: An American Son’s Search For Home by michael brendan dougherty sentinel, 223 pages, $24 Irish artists face a problem unknown to artists in, let us say, uninterrupted nations. It is possible for things, places, people to be “too Irish”—the gist of a note I . . . . Continue Reading »
What Liberalism Lacks
by R. R. RenoNo serious American statesman has imagined that liberalism is sufficient. Something else is always needed. Continue Reading »
The Politicization of the European Church
by Thomas D. WilliamsThe European Church has a dangerous alliance with specific political positions. Continue Reading »
Sex Is Better than Gender
by Emily ZinosWe would do well to scrap “gender identity” altogether. Continue Reading »
Against David French-ism
by Sohrab AhmariThough culturally conservative, French is a political liberal, which means that individual autonomy is his lodestar. Continue Reading »
Biden, Bernardin, and Today
by George WeigelThe “consistent ethic of life” has provided cover to Democratic politicians. Continue Reading »
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