Tom Wolfe, 1930–2018: On the Late Literary Treasure
Editor’s note: This essay appears in the June 2018 issue of the The New Criterion. It is reprinted by their kind permission. The passing of Tom Wolfe last month at […]
A Clueless “Final Year”
Remember the Duck Rabbit? That’s the famous image that, seen one way, looks like a duck but, seen from another angle, looks like a rabbit. […]
What Happened to Carter Page?
I miss Carter Page. It seems like years since I have heard anything about the American businessman who briefly volunteered at Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. […]
Thoughts on ‘Unfettered Power’
Where to start? The phrase “unfettered power,” to which I will return, may put you in mind of Lord Acton’s famous observation that “power corrupts, […]
Edmund Burke on Michelle Wolf
Watching the disgusting (and decidedly unfunny) performance of the comedienne Michelle Wolf at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last night, I thought of two things. One was, […]
The McCabe Report is Just an Appetizer
What a delicious hors d’oeuvre Michael Horowitz gave the world on Friday! The inspector general for Department of Justice finally issued his eagerly awaited (eagerly […]
Why Kevin Williamson Matters
Any rational person’s list of the most intelligent and pungent columnists now writing will perforce include the name Kevin Williamson, late of National Review and, […]
Fahrenheit 451 Updated
What took them so long? That was our first question when we heard the latest news about the distinguished University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy […]
‘Never Again’? Omnibus Bill Is a Product of the Swamp
Thinking about the $1.3 trillion—that’s “trillion” with a “t” for “terrifying”—omnibus spending bill that President Trump signed on Friday, I wonder who is most unhappy […]
A ‘Higher Loyalty’ to Their Inflated Sense of Virtue
Some portion of the reading public is eagerly awaiting A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, the aptly titled exercise in self-serving historical revisionism by […]
Hillary Clinton, Pride of Radcliffe
The Harvard Crimson last week announced that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would receive the Radcliffe Medal on May 25 at the Radcliffe Institute […]
The Woman in the High Castle
In a dystopian fantasy in The New York Times at the end of the year, the columnist Bret Stephens reminded us of the horror that […]
The Schiff Obstruction
Readers of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit will recall the philosopher’s withering comments about “the dogmatism of mere assertion” which yields naught but an empty and […]
Our New Secessionists
Item 1: “People now marvel how it came to pass that he should have been selected as the representative man of any party. His . […]
Trump Restores the ‘We’
In The Meaning of Conservatism and several other books, the English philosopher Roger Scruton argues for the importance of the first-person plural—the “We” that binds […]
Friedrich Hayek’s Enduring Legacy
In 1929, Benito Mussolini boasted, “We were the first to assert that the more complicated the forms assumed by civilization, the more restricted the freedom […]
Of Home Truths and Shitholes
It is curious how close certain seemingly contrary emotions can be. Consider, to take just one example, the feelings of glee and outrage. At first […]
The Left’s Hostile Takeover of Corporate America
One of the things that made “Disruptive Politics in the Trump Era,” John Fonte’s recent column for American Greatness, so provocative was his insight that […]
Taking Trump Seriously
Trying to take Trump seriously, Michael’s Barone’s column in the Washington Examiner on Thursday, is significant for at least two reasons. One is that anything […]
Trump’s Doctrine: ‘Principled Realism’ Comes to the Fore
Congress requires every administration to submit an outline of its national security strategy. This is usually a behind-the-scenes exercise, carried out by the national security […]