Faulty Recall
National Review’s ongoing hostility to MAGA voters misses the real story of the California election.
Liberalism Isn’t What it Used to Be
For writers at Salon “liberal” signifies whatever they and their circle of groupies would like it to mean and has little attachment to historical reality.
The Unchanging Telos of the Democrats
Biden is right: importing thousands of Afghan refugees is a “success”—for the Democrats’ plan to transform America.
The Emerging One-Party State
Republicans would do well to abstain from misleading talk about “bipartisanship” and refer to the Democrats as what they really are: a totalitarian threat to our constitutional system.
Protecting Us From COVID: Politics and Reality
Americans may be allowed to feel skepticism as we watch self-identified Democrats running to mask up again.
Kudzu and Equality
It may be a fool’s errand to claim the same ideals as those espoused by the Left but call for one’s own interpretation of them, as the theoretical and rhetorical kudzu continues to spread.
Stop Pretending ‘Moderate’ Democrats Are Heroes
In a case of bad or worse political choices we should not exaggerate degrees of difference among woke leftists or to ascribe to them more conservative positions than they in fact hold.
War of All Against All
Everything the present Democratic administration is allowing to happen, and which creates chaos and aggravates violence, is aimed at increasing its control.
Eastern Europeans Know Enough to Abhor Alien Practices
Most Poles or Hungarians, including their youth, don’t swoon over our leftist fashions—or care about how they play out in the Western European media.
How the GOP Really Should Unite the United States
The claim of a unified America, and not a war against a modern-day version of Southern secessionists, is what links the Republican Party to its past.
The Continuing Fictitious Struggle
Antifascists and others on the Left like to believe they have been struggling against the same Right for almost 100 years. But there is little evidence for this assumption.
Theocratic Wishful Thinking
It's difficult to see how the Middle Ages produced a better political regime than the supposedly defective work of the American founders.
Limitations of the Hatred Coalition
The current administration represents both the woke Left and partisan Democratic interests. But what will happen if the present leftist coalition comes apart?
No, Paleoconservatives Are Not Helping the Left
Why does Michael Anton believe Brion McClanahan or anyone else writing for Chronicles is helping the Left by rejecting the positions of the 1776 Commission?
Persistent Leftists Aren’t Necessarily Persistent Marxists
New enemies may be as pernicious as old ones without being the same. It might be best to focus on those who reflexively align with the Left rather than worry about persistent Marxism.
Rethinking Race Relations and America’s Past
Some commentators have grievously misrepresented the situation of how we reached this pass.
Save Us From Fake Marxists
How does this affluent beneficiary of woke capitalists represent Marxism?
Against Political Romanticism on the Right
Let’s stop pretending that those who repeatedly vote for truly destructive governments are just victims yearning to become “the people.”
A Government of Thugs, by Thugs, for Thugs
The Democrats seem to have taken their cues from earlier totalitarians in the way they have built bridges to the world’s thug population.
Safe Spaces of Violence
Violence is enhancing the power of those who can use it with total impunity.