The leaders we deserve
I'm heading back to the United States this month to spend some time with my family, and I'm headed back to an America whipped...
Just War Doctrine Doesn’t Need an Update
According to a “first of its kind” Vatican conference co-hosted by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and the international Catholic peace organization...
Ten Theses on Our Populist Moment
Tomorrow, with the California Democratic primary, the populist developments that so many have observed in this electoral cycle will definitively change. Either Sanders will...
Maintenant, ça suffit
I've been out of Paris for a week now, and apart from a brief stop there on my way to London to watch the Brexit...
The Day the Improbable Happened
In 2014, I was in Glasgow for the Scottish referendum. I had spent the day before the referendum out and about in Glasgow and...
Would Rabbit Angstrom Vote For Trump?
Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a former high school basketball star with a spiritual yearning and an outsized libido, may be both John Updike’s most famous...
Bill Kauffman on Why We Don’t Need a President
Only the Anti-Federalists, it seems, could envision Lyndon B. Johnson or George W. Bush.
Twenty Years Now, Where’d They Go?
The Future of Freedom Foundation has reprinted "The Empire versus Little America," my speech from what was, in a parallel universe, the epochal 2010...
Trump in Context
Sioux Center, Iowa. In what he represents, Donald Trump is not as unique as either his admirers or his despisers think.
How do we explain...
Election Reflections, 2016 (Part 1)
With the exception of one big think piece on our almost-certainly-soon-to-be-POTUS, Hillary Clinton, I've been quiet this presidential election. I think that's because, in...