The Trump administration’s action in Venezuela shows that sentimental appeals to international law have no place in American foreign policy.
Mad Prophet of the Big Screen
Fifty years on, Network still speaks the “transient, human truth,” so in 2026 “you’ve got to get mad!”
Renee Good Endangered Her Life—and Yours
Activism that abets law-breaking is the moral equivalent of racketeering, and it might meet the legal definition, too.
Mamdani’s ‘Marxism’ Gives Cover to Conservative Inc.
Establishment conservatives are still dwelling on old tropes about socialism and Marxism, and avoid noticing the left’s real motives are racial.
Hogwarts from Hell: D.C.’s Deep State High School
An interconnected web of deep state actors all emanate from the same exclusive Washington, D.C. high schools.
Mamdani’s ‘Warm Collectivism’ Is Just Anti-White Hatred
The ideology that’s operating behind the curtain of New York City’s mayoralty.
Predictable Childcare Subsidy Fraud Makes Childcare Unaffordable
Working families are subsidizing the very things that are making life, and especially childcare, so expensive for them.
A Return to the Only Real ‘Rule-Based International Order’: National Interest
After more than 30 years of bowing to the liberal, post-Cold War “Rules-Based International Order,” Trump has upended U.S. foreign policy in favor of one grounded in its real national interests.
Trump Avoids Neocon Pitfalls in Venezuela
“Democracy” is clearly not the main issue in Venezuela—nor should it be.
Don’t Let the Neoconservatives Turn Venezuela Into a ‘Democracy’ Project
Although the Trump administration’s action in Venezuela is in America’s rational self-interest, there is no shortage of neoconservatives hoping to extend the operation for their ideological purposes.
Maduro’s Fall Could Save Lives in America
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.
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.
Tim Walz Personifies Democrats’ Decline
Until Democratic populism can match Republican populism on immigration and cultural norms, the decline will continue for that party.
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.
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.”
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."
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.
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.
America’s Affordability Crisis
The affordability crisis is a governing crisis: a failure to use power to deliver outcomes that make ordinary life better.
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.
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.
What We Are Reading: January 2026
Short reviews of 'The Attack on Leviathan' by Donald Davidson, and 'In Order to Live' by Yeonmi Park.
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.
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.
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.
Books in Brief: January 2026
A short review of 'Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan' by Richard Overy.
America’s Woke Revolution
Ken Burns, in his 'The American Revolution' docuseries, displays the symptoms of the woke mind virus like never before.
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.
Wokeness and Capitalism
Wokeness undergirds American capitalism, and the U.S. has strived to export it to the vassals of its empire.
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.
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.
The Creedal Nation Myth
For creedalists, “we,” that is, Americans—as a distinct people—don’t exist. Not now, and not ever.
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.
A Diplomatic Revolution
Trump’s move to decouple America from Europe’s effete ruling class has been the international event of the year.
The U.S. Should Ban More Eurolosers Like Thierry Breton
European whining about visa bans should embolden the Trump administration to go further in enforcing America First policies.
Forget TDS—VDS Now Looms on the Horizon
Damning the vice president with faint praise is a new pastime for a fusionist who failed to take out Vance’s boss.
The Year in Passings
Some of the notable passings in 2025 make it a year of leaving wisdom and mystery behind.
Nigeria’s Troubles Are Constitutional
Intervention in a country that lacks a reliable understanding of what it is makes little sense and can do very little good.
Harvard Says Yes to Discrimination, No to Western Civ
Scholars and students of real academic distinction are now fleeing institutions like Harvard for freer and fairer settings.
The Disappearing Middle Eastern Christians
Christians of different traditions and in different lands need to hang together, or else they will most assuredly hang separately.
Reiner Comment Hysteria Is Really Just Elite Exasperation
The performative shock of establishment elites to Trump’s comments on the death of Rob Reiner betrays their fear of losing cultural influence.
A MAGA Christmas
In reminding us to be grateful for the sacrifice of those who came before us, the 2025 White House Christmas display also invokes gratitude to the Author of all our blessings.
The Tsunami of Printed Money Won’t Help ‘Affordability’
The inflation caused by increased federal spending will only make life more unaffordable than it already is.
JD Vance Gets America’s Creed and Heritage Right
The Americans who built this country bequeathed us not only a Constitution but a culture, which is more than a litany of abstract propositions.
Wokeness Isn’t Dead
The idols of the current year are very far from being smashed to pieces and it won’t be journalists or intellectuals who finally manage it.
Why Healthcare CEOs Should Testify Before Congress
The industry needs to explain why, at taxpayer expense, it is experiencing record corporate profits and doling out massive executive compensation packages while fraud and widespread denial of care continue.
‘Schoolhouse Rock!’: When American Children’s Television Was Still Sane
The series created by advertising executive David McCall to help his son memorize multiplication tables taught a generation of children much more than math.