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Jan 18, 2025 | 
thedispatch.com | Nicole Penn |Daniel N. Gullotta |Thomas Sheppard |Ben Rolsma
Who gets to decide who’s been the most faithful to the country’s creeds? Published January 18, 2025 In his seminal 1989 book The Democratization of American Christianity, historian Nathan Hatch posited that the forces of democratization and religious disestablishment unleashed by the American Revolution galvanized an unprecedented outpouring of spiritual enthusiasm.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Anastasia Boden |Sarah Isgur |Jay Cost |Ben Rolsma
In his new book, Neil Gorsuch lets a focus on process overshadow a serious threat to liberty. Published October 12, 2024 For Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, American lawmaking is more dysfunctional than ever.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Jay Cost |Jonah Goldberg |Ben Rolsma |Michael Reneau
Published September 16, 2024 We’re thrilled to introduce The Monday Essay!If you read The Dispatch regularly, you know that one of the main things we aspire to do—going all the way back to our founding—is inject more sober-minded analysis into a media environment rife with hot takes. We believe that’s especially needed in the middle of an election season.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Reilly Stephens |James Patterson |Ben Rolsma |Gregg Nunziata
Determining the division between state and federal authority continues to roil our politics and occupy our courts. Published September 13, 2024 More than two years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, there remains little consensus among Republican politicians or conservative activists as to what, exactly, the policy response should be—or what the purpose of the movement even was in the first place.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Thomas Sheppard |Jonah Goldberg |Ben Rolsma |Michael Lucchese
“What do we mean by the American Revolution?” John Adams might have mused these words in 1818, decades after the event, but the former president felt certain about this: The revolution “was effected before the war commenced.” It had begun some time before, “in the Minds and Hearts of the People.” Yet for most of the 1760s, no one envisioned a wholesale transformation in the relationship between the mother country and colonies, much less a severing of that relationship altogether.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | John Mccormack |Keith E. Whittington |Adam White |Ben Rolsma
The White House and Kamala Harris want Supreme Court term limits but won’t answer key questions about their proposal. Published August 1, 2024 On Monday, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris called for dramatically restructuring the U.S. Supreme Court but provided almost no details about how they would implement the proposal. Several senators told The Dispatch this week that they were not sure exactly what the president and vice president had in mind.
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Jul 6, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Grayson Logue |Ben Rolsma |Thomas Koenig |Mathis Bitton
Carlos Lozada, an opinion columnist at the New York Times and former book reviewer at the Washington Post, has taken it upon himself to do something rarely done in Washington: the homework. Over several years, he has read (typically multiple times) the new texts of contemporary American politics—the campaign biographies, the presidential memoirs, the staffer tell-alls, the “Trump books”—and documented his journey in hundreds of articles.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | David Stewart |Ben Rolsma |Thomas Koenig |Jonah Goldberg
Happy Thursday! And happy Fourth of July! No TMD today—though there are new episodes of The Dispatch Podcast, Advisory Opinions, and The Remnant. Before you head out for the parade, we hope you’ll take a few minutes to (re)-read the growing list of Independence Day reflections spanning American history that we’ve compiled over the years. Sure, there are plenty of reasons not to feel all that patriotic right now, but ours is a pretty incredible country, warts and all.
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Ben Rolsma |Stephanie Murray |Alex Demas |Michael Reneau
How outside contributors can pitch us stories and essays. Published June 30, 2024 The Dispatch is proud to feature contributions from a wide array of freelance reporters and writers, many of whom have published with us regularly for years. That said, we receive far more submissions than we can accept. Below are some guidelines explaining what we look for from our freelancers, along with some tips to give your pitches the greatest chance of being published.
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Victoria Holmes |Ben Rolsma |Stephanie H. Murray |Alex Demas
Plus: How big of a problem are porn and video games? Published June 30, 2024 Richard Reeves, president of the American Institute for Boys and Men, joins Victoria to discuss how young men lack structural and social support in modern society.
