Last week, the BfV, a German intelligence agency tasked with investigating threats to the “liberal democratic basic order,” made headlines by officially classifying the far-right Alternative für…
First Things describes itself as “America’s most influential journal of religion and public life.” You might not have heard of First Things —the magazine’s circulation wouldn’t drain a bathtub and its…
Below is the second of a two-part report on the third National Conservatism Conference that took place in Miami, FL from September 11 - September 13, 2022. Read Part I here . “Exercise your dominion…
“Most people can’t even articulate a political thought. Like, why do they get to vote? It’s stupid.” It’s the evening of September 11, and I’m sipping whiskey by the bar at a 4-star resort hotel in…
It’s been interesting to wake up this morning and discover that the #NEVERAGAIN kids have rattled everyone from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to the National Review’s Charles W. Cooke, to Marco Rubio…
From Trump’s support among evangelicals to Bernie Sanders’ secular Judaism to Hillary’s “voice of God” ad campaign, the religion-in-politics rule book is getting a major rewrite in 2016. And while…
Tuesday was not a happy day for religion writers like myself who explore the intersection of the Catholic Church and American politics. With Marco Rubio’s withdrawal from the GOP nomination race on…
Poor David Brooks. He wants to write about what ails the evangelical affection for Ted Cruz and what he sees as a tenuous relationship with Christian virtue, but he seems to misapprehend that…
Marco Rubio’s “Faith” evangelical outreach ad, which debuted in Iowa over the weekend, can be seen as confirmation of a trend that’s long been brewing in politics: the rise of Evangelical Catholics in…