How the right learned to love the state
Make government agencies serve social conservative ends and what will be the left’s response?
Populism
Tuesday
Thursday
Poland’s Nawrocki heralds a more mature populism
He is one of a new breed of politically mature populist leaders. If he represents the future, then the future will be bright
Tuesday
Trumpism rules the world
His views are fast becoming the consensus, but people still find obscure reasons to oppose the man himself
Saturday
MAGA is America’s third party
What Trumpism represents, obliquely, is the final victory of the Buchanan-Perot tendency in national life
Thursday
The rise of the liberal Caesars
Unassuming ex-bureaucrats are being parachuted in to do… what?
Thursday
Landlord Trump, the tenants’ best bet
America has been lecturing other nations about how they keep their own houses — if indeed they are their own — for decades
Tuesday
What’s behind the vicious attacks on Elon Musk?
He’s doing big things, but he’s also a way to attack a popular president
Friday
Welcome to Kamala’s Word Salad City
The vibes campaign is running on fumes
Thursday
Populism will win the 2024 election
No matter who wins, they’ll form a government with an agenda and mandate different from the one Washington’s status quo corporatist, globalists and lobbyists prefer
Tuesday
The fight ahead in 2024
The new year seems set to offer us more of the same
The meaning of Javier Milei
What can we learn from his upset win in Argentina?
The liberal-conservative tug of war for the GOP
The party faces a choice between its nationalist and liberal wings
Thursday
Geert Wilders’s win shouldn’t surprise us
The Dutch populist’s victory is yet another rejection of the elites business as usual
Monday
What does Javier Milei’s win in Argentina mean to America?
He becomes the first libertarian president in the world
Wednesday
Why we’re all populists now
If events continue to take their current course, the world in 2070 will be as different from today as that of 1970 was from 1920
Friday
The rise of the popcons
Rejecting populism led the post-Reagan GOP to defeat and disaster
Wednesday
The United States of paranoia
The country is stuck in a vicious cycle in which one side’s paranoia feeds the other’s
Thursday
The electoral mediocrity of Donald Trump
How the former president became a hindrance for Republicans
Thursday
Giorgia Meloni and the reactionary axis that wasn’t
Breathless media coverage obscures her differences with leaders like Viktor Orbán
Monday
Giorgia Meloni should inspire American conservatives
Her rhetoric on the family is one Americans should adopt
