The current American political landscape overflows with sharp conflict and disdainful rhetoric. The norm for American political discourse has alarmingly mutated from spirited good-faith debate into no ...

Where powerful streams converge, there will be turbulence. That applies to politics as well as to waterways. Right now, two powerful streams of Republicanism in our time are converging on Cleveland ...

(RNS) — Opponents of Christian nationalism shouldn’t try to defeat the Christian right, but to foster its most republican impulses. As the first graph shows, the term’s usage in printed sources ...

In the Wall Street Journal last weekend, Barton Swaim appropriately praised Yuval Levin and his new book, American Covenant. Mr. Levin has a gift for drawing readers’ attention to realities that ...

Whatever its other legacies may prove to be, classical liberalism—the public philosophy that organizes social relations around the principles of individualist market exchange—is looking more and more ...

Donald Trump's surprisingly good State of the Union speech got a record 70 to 75 percent positive approval rating from those who watched. Even if you discount (as you should) for the Trump haters who ...

Gordon Wood is the favorite historian of America’s liberal establishment. His essays appear regularly in the New York Review of Books and the New Republic, and liberalism’s leading intellectuals–from ...

Former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele said Wednesday that “there is a difference between Republicanism and conservatism” under President Trump. “It’s big-government ...

The country struggles with religion and integration one week after the Charlie Hebdo murders. (Reuters/Eric Gaillard) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive ...

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