The surest way to avoid a pope tainted by any of the scandals plaguing the Church is to elect a layman.
Year: 2025
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Trump’s Rumble on Sesame Street
PBS and NPR and government subsidized left-wing megaphones and it’s high time taxpayers stopped paying for them.
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The Trump Tariff Agenda and the Separation of Powers
The state of play with the Trump tariff agenda remains unpredictable even as the administration appears to have the upper hand in the courts.
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Models, Reality TV, and Stick-Shift Surprises
A new book by a former contestant on America’s Next Top Model is full of surprises—including the wisdom it offers about how to treat people.
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In Memoriam: David Horowitz
A man who spent the second half of his life warning the world about his first half, leaves behind a legacy of fierce loyalty and love for the fight.
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A Quarter-Century Later, ‘American Psycho’ Still Fails to Feminize
How the art of American Psycho got away from and betrayed its feminist artist.
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The Art of a Second Iran Deal
It is crucial that Trump and team understand that a deal—any deal, just for the sake of a deal—is not the goal of this exercise.
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Polemics & Exchanges: May 2025
A reader issues a call for conservative action: conservative activism, conservative lawfare, conservatives taking to the streets!
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Why the Right Likes Russia
A growing faction of the American right considers Vladimir Putin the last defender of Christendom. This colors how they view the Russo-Ukrainian War.
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Tariffs Are a Bitter, But Necessary, Pill to Swallow
The Trump tariffs aim to take America off the addictive, but toxic, globalized economic system that enriches Wall Street while decimating Main Street.
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Free Trade Has Never Been a Right-Wing Principle
Being right-wing doesn't require support for unbridled free-trade, much less does it require support for so-called "free-trade agreements."
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The Ukraine War and the End of American Superpower
The Ukraine War is a symptom of the American empire’s decline. It is time for America to untangle herself from the region and focus on her vital interests.
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Remembering George S. Schuyler
George S. Schuyler adeptly caricatured black racial romanticists and Marxists with wit equal to his mentor, H. L. Mencken.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Enduring Legacy of a 20th-Century Prophet
Joseph Pearce interviews Ignat Solzhenitsyn, son of famed Russian dissident Aleksandr, about a newly published volume of his father's speeches, "We Have Ceased to See the Purpose."
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What the Editors Are Reading: May 2025
Short reviews of 'Suicide of a Superpower' by Patrick J. Buchanan, and 'The Genius of Christianity' by Viscount De Chateaubriand
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Solzhenitsyn in Exile: A Giant Among Pigmies
"We Have Ceased to See the Purpose" contains Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's most important speeches given during his 20 year exile in the West.
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The Sad and Beautiful Death of the Modern Man of the West
Michel Houellebecq, in his final novel, grapples with the struggle to find meaning in the meaningless contemporary West.
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How Wealth Co-opted Conservative Politics
David Gibbs’ "Revolt of the Rich" explains how the ultrawealthy seized control of the conservative movement and destroyed the American Dream.
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Books in Brief: May 2025
Short reviews of "A Certain Idea of America" by Peggy Noonan and "Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America" by Paola Ramos.
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A Kind and Compassionate Man
Joshua Doggrell tells a brief, but compelling, tale of bourgeois white guilt and its disastrous consequences.
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Ike and the “Military Industrial Complex”
The expert class associates Dwight Eisenhower with goofing and golfing, and his presidency with stagnation, but the experts are wrong. Ike was a great statesman.
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An Elusive Leopard
Netflix's reinvention of Prince Lampedusa’s “The Leopard” turns old Sicily into a cruel hellscape and, thereby, loses the thing that made the original novel great: A nostalgia for the traditional Sicilian society that Italian nationalism crushed.
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You Say You Want a Revolution
Even peaceful revolutions impose real harms on real people, and Trump and Vance would do well to acknowledge those harms and ameliorate them.
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The Media’s Fake Narrative on Trump’s First 100 Days
There is no reason to trust the narrative from discredited legacy media outlets that Trump is now suddenly less popular. His first 100 days have been a triumph.
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Demography’s Great Turn
The demographic prophets of doom warned of rapid population growth just a few decades ago but now bemoan population decline.
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Parenting’s Generational Divide
Mothers, and parents in general, face unique challenges today that previous generations did not, and they have less support in facing them. It takes a toll.
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Former People Don’t Count
The civilized world seems content to stand by and do nothing as Palestinians are being killed or starved to death by Israel. They are effectively what the Soviets used to call "former people."
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Black Robes Matter, But Not More Than the People
The quest for unelected rule from the bench must be stopped.
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The Vatican Needs Its Own DOGE
The Church’s poor governance in fiscal and bureaucratic matters is impeding its true Christian mission.
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Beyond ‘Due Process’
The obsession the left is now exhibiting with questions of due process in immigration cases is, in fact, a thin veneer covering their naked aggression against the legal tradition that created it.
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Rod Dreher Wants to Be MAGA’s Conscience Now
The famous NeverTrumper spent the better part of the last decade decrying Trump and his supporters. Now he pretends to offer friendly advice. It ought to be ignored.
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John Wayne and the American Freedom Train
Reprising the American Freedom Train would be a good way to make America’s quarter millennium anniversary a spectacular and unifying event.
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Don’t Make Ukraine Another Vietnam
In devising a practical peace, not every question of principle needs to be answered.
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Night Train: Pope Francis and Catholic Death
The Catholic experience of death encourages a realistic embrace of its sadness, tragedy, and terror. For only in knowing these can we ever hope to experience God’s true grace.
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The Commercial Cultural Revolution Is Upon Us
If you’ve noticed that commercial representation of whites and heterosexual couples has significantly decreased in recent years, at least as compared to their actual numbers in the population, you’re not alone.
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How We Can Be True Friends to Citizens of Nations Once Allied, Now Captive
MAGA must maintain America’s longstanding commitment to being a “friend of liberty” even as putting America first may sometimes clash with the short-term interests of allies we hope to see free.
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Kilmar’s Deportation is Not a Constitutional Crisis
The open defiance of the Constitution exhibited by sanctuary cities and states makes it difficult to swallow the labeling of irregularities in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s deportation a “constitutional crisis.”
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Are You More Human Than a Chatbot?
We need to ask ourselves if the outsourcing of human relationships to chatbots may have something to do with our own inability to be fully human in those relationships.
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Leftist Corruption Is Undergoing a Reckoning
A partial list of egregious examples of leftist corruption that have been exposed and punished demonstrates that a reckoning is underway.
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Electric Vehicles—The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
A new documentary by Larry Elder explores the true costs of electric vehicles.
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Don’t Fall Into the Issue-Legitimacy Trap
The media and the elites they service want to trap Americans into believing that their legitimate concerns are “fringe issues.”
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‘Liberation Day’ Illustrated the Peril of Plans
By sticking too rigidly to his plans for implementing tariffs, Trump failed to develop the leverage he needed for those plans to work.
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Another Thing Folks Like About the South: Public Education’s Revival
A reform movement, dubbed the Southern Surge, is allowing education reformers to work around political resistance, improving literacy and overhauling failing schools.
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The Alarm-Bell City of the West
Why Birmingham, not London, best captures the collapse of Britain and serves as a warning to the rest of the West.
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What Happened to the Left That Hated the Deep State?
There once was a time when the critics of the deep state were on the left. Their transformation into its lackeys is as fascinating as it is disturbing.
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After Francis, Catholics Need a Populist Pope
Francis was meant to bridge the Catholic Church’s factions in the age of globalism while upholding core teachings. But globalism did not resonate as expected.
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Casting Off the Oppression of the Race Hustle
Jason L. Riley dismantles race hustlers in his new book: The Affirmative Action Myth.