Political Culture

May 06, 2026

When Public Language Stops Telling the Truth

One of the most familiar sounds in Nigeria is not the generator humming through a blackout or the impatient horn in standstill traffic. It is the shrug that follows obvious failure. Continue Reading...

October 03, 2025

Are Americans Too Political?

The most common explanation for America’s political violence problem is that we’re hyperpoliticized, that we’re too obsessed with politics. But this diagnosis has it backward. Americans aren’t too political—we’re not political enough. Continue Reading...

July 11, 2025

Dining with Judas: The Limits of Culinary Diplomacy

Since the first state dinner in 1874, the United States has maintained a long-standing tradition of engaging in culinary diplomacy—a soft-power tool used to “increase bilateral ties by strengthening relationships through the use of food and dining experiences as a means to engage visiting dignitaries.” Continue Reading...

April 10, 2025

America Poured Billions into DEI Initiatives. Who Benefited?

Less than a month after George Floyd’s death, evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience to explain the sentiment behind America’s new reckoning on race. “There’s a cybernetic principle: the purpose of a system is what it does,” he asserted. Continue Reading...

July 26, 2024

The Politics of Dehumanization and Political Violence in the West

The attempted assassination of Donald Trump during a political rally held in Pennsylvania on July 13, which left one dead and several wounded—including the former president—was a grotesque assault on American democracy. Continue Reading...

July 24, 2024

The Keffiyeh, Symbols, and the Power of Folklore

When the IDF began amassing in Gaza in the aftermath of the 10/7 massacre and Americans started taking sides, several social media influencers pointedly asked their followers to name some Israeli and Palestinian inventions without googling. Continue Reading...

June 06, 2024

Richard Dawkins and Mere Cultural Christianity

On April Fool’s Day, I saw headlines that Richard Dawkins, the famed British atheist and evolutionary biologist, had claimed to be a “cultural Christian.” I assumed the headlines were clickbait consistent with the day’s theme. Continue Reading...

January 05, 2023

True Liberty Demands Respectful Disagreement

In his classic The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, Michael Novak offers an observation about an ongoing struggle in a pluralistic society: the absence of a unified vision of the good. Continue Reading...

August 25, 2022

The Trump raid will only harden Americans’ positions

It’s 1973. The Watergate scandal that would ultimately doom the presidency of Richard M. Nixon is roiling that administration. But it’s not the only breach of public trust dogging the Nixon White House. Continue Reading...

March 15, 2022

Put the State of the Union address out of its misery

In the fable of “The Bell and the Cat,” a group of mice discuss how best to protect themselves from a rapacious, predatory cat who has been hunting them down. One mouse suggests they put a bell on the cat so they’ll know when the cat is approaching. Continue Reading...

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