Reasserting Self-Government and Sovereignty Won’t Be Easy
We are all aware that our politics is broken. There is more hate dividing Americans than in recent memory, and especially is there corrosive ire […]
Conservatives
John Roberts Will Be the New Anthony Kennedy
John Roberts will be the new Anthony Kennedy. He stopped short of admitting as much in his recent rejoinder to President Trump, claiming there are […]
Carlson vs. Shapiro: Requiem for the Right
As the American Right—and, by extension, the Republican Party—continues to lumber through a long-needed period of serious transformation, introspection, and reevaluation it is hard to […]
Selling Political Canned Tuna to Voters Who Don’t Own Can Openers
This is not another opinion column picking on Millennials. I promise. This is, rather, an exhortation to Millennials—to all Americans, really—to think hard and think […]
Don’t Listen to Conservative Quitters
Ann Coulter thinks Donald J. Trump will be the last Republican president ever. She might be right. In fact, in my darkest moments, I have […]
Trump’s Nationalism Defined
Nationalism is back. President Trump proudly proclaims it with his America First stance. He’s quite explicit about it, too. “You know what I am?” he […]
From Bush to Trump, the Hard Left-Deep State Alliance Endures
A future American history exam will ask students to recall a U.S. president who relied heavily on the political intelligence-gathering and counsel of one or […]
NeverTrump Groups Profit from Left-Wing Philanthropist’s Cash
Just in time for the holidays, a group of philanthropic leaders released a joint statement urging Americans to support what they view as one the […]
GM’s Case Shows the Weakness of ‘Free-Market’ Dogma
General Motors last week announced it would close five manufacturing plants, four in America and one in Canada. President Trump responded to GM by threatening […]
How to Think about Property Rights and Social Networks
Is it true that Twitter, Facebook, and Google are private companies, which can cancel, delete, or ban anyone they want at any time? Short answer: […]
Understanding the Weird World of California Conservatives
To be conservative in California can be frustrating. Republicans haven’t won a statewide election here in a decade. Conservative policy prescriptions—such as they are—don’t have […]
#MenToo: Defending Dartmouth’s Todd Heatherton
Almost 20 years ago, I was at a club dancing with a girl I didn’t know. She was performing a kind of dance popular at […]
The Radicalism of Conservatism, Inc.
Mainstream conservatives, sometimes rightly mocked as Conservatism, Inc.™, have managed to conserve very little. Instead, during the Bush years and through to the present, their […]
There Is No ‘Surge’ in White Supremacy
This has been a particularly violent year for Republicans across the country. Candidates were assaulted and Republican campaign offices were vandalized. U.S. Senator Ted Cruz […]
Why the GOP Needs to Focus on California
As midterm results are finally finalized, some with ambiguous implications, the only clear takeaway is that our country is massively divided. While the GOP solidified […]
The Progressive Synopticon
In the post-election aftermath, Republicans are wondering about how they can capture that missing 2-5 percent of the electorate that lost them the House of […]
Fight the Denigration of American History
American history is everywhere under attack. The recent skirmishes started with the campaign to remove Confederate statues, but it surely won’t end there. As our […]
It’s Not the Economy, Stupid
Paul Ryan used to give copies of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged as Christmas gifts. The novel, a long ode to what Rand called the “virtue […]
NeverTrump and the Golden Calf of the Administrative State
Teeming on the far shore of the Red Sea, a great itinerant caravan, the Trump revolution, has completed the first leg of its long journey. […]
Midterms 2018: It’s Trump’s Party Now
It could have been worse. That is, first and foremost, the takeaway from the 2018 midterms. The “blue wave” never materialized, but neither did the […]