A more cooperative government in Venezuela offers America the hope that fewer criminal migrants, like Tren de Aragua gang members and the killer of Laken Riley, will plague her cities.
Year: 2026
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Trump’s Biggest Challenge With Venezuela Is Domestic
As the Trump administration takes on the challenges presented by its operation in Venezuela, the most formidable one may be getting Republicans to understand it.
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Tim Walz Personifies Democrats’ Decline
Until Democratic populism can match Republican populism on immigration and cultural norms, the decline will continue for that party.
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The Ongoing Transmaid’s Tale
Prequel, sequel, and long overdue pushback in the Audrey Hale case.
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Music, AI, and the Stagnation of Popular Culture
As we become a culture defined by AI technology, we’re losing the ability to distinguish between reality and fakery.
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In Defense of ‘Pax Trumpiana’
The arrest and detention of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro could well be the beginning of a new international order based on realpolitik and the centuries-old “law of nations.”
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The Woke Left Is Far From Defeated
Those suggesting wokeism is on the way out are overlooking the fact voters in large cities are still electing leftists promising to give out "free stuff."
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Minnesota’s Massive Somali Fraud Shows the U.S. Needs a Remigration Policy
Unlike immigrants of old, the Somalis did not come to the United States to work. They came to America to become government dependents and clients of the Democratic Party.
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Woke Will Never Go Broke
The principle of managerialism dominates modern corporations and government agencies. The experts who run them have a fundamentally leftist orientation: they are always searching for incremental progress on never-ending reforms.
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America’s Affordability Crisis
The affordability crisis is a governing crisis: a failure to use power to deliver outcomes that make ordinary life better.
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Trump’s Second First Year Shows What’s Possible in American Politics
Trump has shown much greater zeal in delivering progress on immigration, anti-wokeness, and trade than he ever did in the 2010s. There have been serious gains in right-wing policy in just the first year.
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Remembering Juan Vázquez de Mella
Juan Vázquez de Mella was a Spanish political theorist whose ideas balanced loyalty to the head of state with the autonomy of regional cultures. His ideas informed the nationalist side of the Spanish Civil War as well as the anarcho-capitalist theories of Murray Rothbard.
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What We Are Reading: January 2026
Short reviews of 'The Attack on Leviathan' by Donald Davidson, and 'In Order to Live' by Yeonmi Park.
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The Man Who Identified the Deep State
James Burnham remains relevant, as David T. Byrne explains in his new biography, due to his dual prophecy of democracy's triumph and its inevitable hijacking by elites.
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Getting Hysterical About Joe McCarthy
Yet another bad book on McCarthyism picks up on most of the old liberal narrative but overlays it with today’s culture war.
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The Potato Famine: A Modern Catastrophe
A new history of the Irish Potato Famine shows how emerging modern political theories conflicted with traditional Irish culture to deepen this crisis.
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Books in Brief: January 2026
A short review of 'Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan' by Richard Overy.
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America’s Woke Revolution
Ken Burns, in his 'The American Revolution' docuseries, displays the symptoms of the woke mind virus like never before.
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Andrzej Duda’s Decade of Collapsing Polish Sovereignty
In his 10 years in office, Duda’s leadership has left Poland a frontline state that can’t play its own game.
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Wokeness and Capitalism
Wokeness undergirds American capitalism, and the U.S. has strived to export it to the vassals of its empire.
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Mike Pence and the Elite Evasion of Responsibility
The performative fuss about anti-Semitism by relics of the old conservative establishment is really just an attempt to regain control.
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The Trump Doctrine
President Trump has outlined a sound and pragmatic foreign policy based on a neo-Monroe Doctrine, in which America aims to reinforce its political, economic, and military preeminence in the Western hemisphere.
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The Creedal Nation Myth
For creedalists, “we,” that is, Americans—as a distinct people—don’t exist. Not now, and not ever.
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Homelessness Ain’t What It Was
The class of traveling homeless called “tramps” and “hobos” are an endangered species in Western societies, which are now too dangerous to support their existence.