Paleoconservatism offers young right-wingers an intellectual framework that is both traditional and radical, conservative and subversive.
Tag: George W. Bush
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Shaping a Post-War Iran
A plan for de-escalation that secures the administration’s early wins is in the best interest of all parties—including the saner elements in Iran.
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The Midterm Elections: A Matter of Common Sense—Or Else
Republicans in Congress are in danger of being subsumed beneath a gathering electoral wave in the coming midterms if they don’t get their act together and start listening to their own voters.
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In Search of Natural Conservatives
The platitude that culturally conservative immigrants and minorities are natural conservatives is a false notion, born of white guilt, that has only led to electoral defeat for the GOP.
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Trump’s Inflation Trap
Americans voted for Trump; if they wind up with Biden’s economy anyway, there’s going to be hell to pay at the ballot box.
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Answering Robert George on Conservative Principles
Dedication to abstract universals without a prudent application of concrete and changing realities is a recipe for civilizational suicide.
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The Time to Stop Mamdani Was 30 Years Ago
In the wake of 9/11 America should have tightened its borders instead of cracking down on its own citizens and launching pointless wars.
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Yes, President Trump Can Blow Up Drug Boats
The president has both the constitutional and the statutory authority to carry out operations aimed at designated terrorist groups engaged in drug trafficking.
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Yesterday’s Totalitarian
Stephen King’s The Long Walk is a fantastical exploration of an old moral universe where totalitarianism presents itself without complications or nuance and thus leaves us unprepared to confront evil as it actually exists.
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A Model Neocon
While the broader conservative movement at least pretends to hear the people’s call for an end to forever wars, National Review’s Noah Rothman remains a stalwart defender of the neocon orthodoxy.
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Other Presidents Complained, But Trump Made NATO Step Up
Trump has accomplished what other presidents only dreamed about regarding NATO commitments.
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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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Taking on the Globalization Gods Requires Courage
Trump has always been clear that the path to sovereignty, self-reliance, and national purpose would require some amount of sacrifice and uncertainty.
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Trump’s Life’s Work Culminates in Confronting Communist China
Trump has not just been outspoken on the issue of trade with China—he has been proven correct.
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John Roberts Is Responsible for the High Court’s Self-Delegitimization
Roberts has a history of prioritizing—in ham-handed and self-aggrandizing fashion—what he believes to be the judiciary’s integrity.
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Farewell to the Ideology of ‘Development’?
Can Trump finally succeed in the 60-plus year struggle to overcome the failed and misguided ideology of “Developmentalism” at USAID?
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Trump Draws the Map to 2028
Donald Trump destroyed the Democrats’ blue wall and, with it, their hopes for 2028.
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Rick Scott’s Ultra-Neocon Foreign Policy Advisor
To ensure a sincere America First, Peace Through Strength foreign policy, there should be a better path for Senate leadership.
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Joe Biden, 20 Years Ago, Blocked the Potential First Black Female on the Supreme Court
Joe Biden repeatedly blocked the path of Janice Rogers Brown when she was being considered for the Court.
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It Won’t Be Easy to Make America Great Again
Election 2024 will not end or save humanity. What’s at stake in a presidential election is something far different from the all-or-nothing outcome that the rival campaigns envision.
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Mucking Out the Beltway’s Augean Stables
As Hercules cleaned the stables of King Augeas so, too, must we divert all our ingenuity and strength to removing the accumulated filth of the D.C. swamp.
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NeverVancers Are the New NeverTrumpers
The usual suspects are out in force to undermine J. D. Vance as antithetical to Reagan’s realism merely because he repudiates George W. Bush’s disasters.
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Virginia Turns Toward Trump
Biden received the benefit of the doubt in 2020 from suburbanites who wanted competence and calm. He won't get that this year, after the record he's run up.
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Who You Talkin’ To, Robert De Niro?
The actor’s self-indulgent rant in New York is the latest example of the all-too-human temptation to garner admiration through performative outrage.
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Nuland, We Hardly Knew Ye
The arch-neoconservative Victoria Nuland resigned from the State Department last week, after a long career of fomenting nearly every U.S. foreign policy debacle—most especially Ukraine's losing war with Russia.
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Books in Brief: April 2024
Short reviews of The Myth of Left and Right by Hyrum Lewis and Verlan Lewis, and Myth America by Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer.
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American Public Education Is Beyond Crisis Mode
Parents who don’t want their children to be subject to the ever-changing winds of today’s left-wing therapeutic culture will have to make the word “sacrifice” part of their vocabulary.
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Veepstakes Give Trump an Edge
Small though the influence of a VP pick usually is, Trump has several ways to turn the right choice into a winning hand.
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Do Americans Trust Either Party?
Americans prefer no consistent government, rapid-cycling anarchy, to everything the two parties offer: neither has made the sale.
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What Happened to Ron DeSantis?
When a politician stakes his campaign on a demonstration of how thorough, consistent and philosophically pure he is, he might impress conservative journalists and policy wonks, but they don't pick the nominee.
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Florida, the New Capital of Red State America
Republicans need to simply let Florida and its transformational governor show them the way. The future of the GOP is here in the sunshine state.