May 2023

Anyone naive enough to believe the nation’s abortion debate would end with the U.S. Supreme Court reversal of the Roe standard of a half-century has since been alerted to the realities of America’s culture wars. The conflict, naturally enough, divides both major political parties — but to no small extent separates the candidates of one of them. The implications for Arkansas’ Asa Hutchinson, his presidential campaign officially launched last week, are striking.