American author and columnist
Jim Geraghty of National Review Online assesses the current sad state of the nation’s two major political parties. The argument that there’s no difference between the Republican Party and the…
Becket Adams laments at National Review Online that “we have become a dangerously incurious people.” In real life, we should bemoan our loss of curiosity. You see it everywhere, most…
Ian Tuttle writes for National Review Online about an interesting development during the 2024 election cycle. At the New York Times, Ross Douthat takes note of one of the signal…
Charles Murray dissects Ross Douthat‘s latest tome for the Claremont Review of Books. “Complaining about decadence is, almost by definition, a luxury good,” Ross Douthat observes in his new book,…
Ross Douthat of the American Enterprise Institute places today’s political controversies in a larger context. The force transforming Western liberalism has many hashtags, many slogans, many admiring and pejorative descriptions,…
Shannon Watkins of the Martin Center focuses on challenges to the concept of meritocracy. A recent panel discussion in Chapel Hill highlighted that challenge. Is meritocracy just? Just a short…
In a recent blogpost, I provided links to several installments in an ongoing debate over the future of conservatism, including Sohrab Ahmari’s attack on David French that started the whole thing,…
In yesterday’s New York Times, Douthat suggested that the recent spat between Sohrab Ahmari and David French is fundamentally a dispute about what, if anything, should replace “the consensus that ……
Echoing Bill Clinton’s declaration in his 1996 State of the Union address that “the era of big government is over,” Ross Douthat now sees conservatives justifying government interventions because they…
Ben Shapiro uses a National Review Online column to offer conservatives some post-midterm advice. Republicans won heavily Republican districts, but they lost competitive districts. Their historical advantage among suburban voters…
Michael Barone‘s latest column in the New York Post explains how a divisive, landmark Supreme Court ruling from the 1970s fuels today’s partisan chaos. If Roe v. Wade had never…
Liberals like small homes that are close to shopping and attractions, while conservatives prefer to have larger properties and drive longer distances to the store. This is one of the…