Kamala Harris Against History
The candidate’s “unburdened by what has been” and “coconut tree” lines push her party toward a troubling partisan divide over the past itself.
President Joe Biden is out of the 2024 race, and Vice President Kamala Harris is angling to lead her par…
Christian Duty in a Spiral Toward Unrest
Political violence looms large in our national history, to our shame. It does not have to define our future.
Foreign policy theorists have a term for when two countries unwillingly drift toward war. It’s called a security dilemma, and as Harv…
There Is No President Who Is Righteous, No, Not One
A government built on the assumption of its leader’s good character is a government badly built.
The Supreme Court’s Monday ruling on presidential immunity from criminal prosecution did not offer boundless endorsement of the executive officeh…
Which Comes First: Good Citizens or Good Governments?
Two new books consider whether one depends on the other.
Constitutional scholar C. L. Skach begins How to Be a Citizen: Learning to Be Civil Without the State with an engrossing account of her own foray into crafting the law of a land. The land in …
Kids Aren’t Cheap. That Doesn’t Fully Explain Why We’re Ambivalent About Having Them.
A new book explores why what was once a default life stage now feels like an increasingly fraught choice.
In a recent Guardian article about “America’s premier pronatalists,” the journalist mentions her own assumption that &ldquo…
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