What Happened to America’s Soft Power? What Marc saw as relatively smooth sailing for the CIA’s critical operations during the first two years of the Trump administration is beginning to change. Art Keller 25 Oct 2020 · 8 min read
Sex and the American Presidency What does all this have to do with the sexual follies in the White House? Like the Bolshevik Revolution, sex is nothing if not leveling. Seth Greenland 7 Oct 2020 · 19 min read
The Great Awokening and the Second American Revolution The past is raked over for imperfections as left-modernist ideologues render the most grievance-based interpretation of history imaginable. Eric Kaufmann 22 Jun 2020 · 21 min read
America Has Problems. Tearing Down Statues Won't Solve Them To the extent we all care about the important underlying issues, such as fighting racial discrimination and promoting opportunity to all, we shouldn’t allow our culture wars over statues and symbols to dominate our discourse. Zaid Jilani 12 Jun 2020 · 8 min read
PODCAST 93: David Frum on His New Book, Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy Quillette / Jonathan Kay 4 Jun 2020 ·
The Hell of Good Intentions—A Review Walt is always thinking of ways to blame the most vexing international problems on liberal hegemony. From proliferation to terrorism to Trump, he sees its malignant influence everywhere he looks. Matt Johnson 6 Aug 2019 · 14 min read
Anatomist of Racial Inequality: An Interview with Glenn Loury Loury has taught at Brown University for over a decade, an institution where pleas for American patriotism are likely to be summarily dismissed. So why does he insist on making them? Christian Alejandro Gonzalez 22 Jan 2019 · 13 min read
The Spectrum of Black Contrarianism The likes of Thomas Sowell and Larry Elder reject not only the economic program of the Left but also the racial grievance politics of black activists and politicians. John R. Wood, Jr. 20 Oct 2018 · 10 min read
From Party of Ideas to Party of Dittoheads Stupidity is not an accusation that could be hurled against such early Republicans as Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root and Charles Evans Hughes. Max Boot 15 Oct 2018 · 10 min read
Privilege and Double Standards at the Kavanaugh Hearings One would hope that senators could have worked together to examine the available evidence in a manner that showed respect for all parties involved. Gideon Scopes 8 Oct 2018 · 9 min read
The High Cost of Free College for All College is so accessible in the United States that it’s easier to get student loans and enroll in college than it is to enlist in the armed forces. Daniel Friedman 29 Sep 2018 · 11 min read
The Fragility of the Liberal World Order For Kagan, the architects of the post-war order sought to wed America’s new-found superpower to the construction of a world order that reflected the domestic values of America itself: a liberal international order. Doug Stokes 23 Sep 2018 · 8 min read
The 'Black Chic' Wave To be a black Democratic candidate in 2018 is to be seen, not just as a politician, but as the next step in the decades-long march towards racial equality. Coleman Hughes 12 Sep 2018 · 7 min read
Unmaking Affirmative Action The color question has changed in America and this has implications for the logic of affirmative action. Stephen T. Asma 27 Jul 2018 · 11 min read
Regaining Culture In Post-Society America Every other great nation takes care to cultivate certain traditional values in its people. Julian Friedland 22 Jun 2016 · 7 min read