The Return of Realpolitik Some leaders in Europe may resist a new alliance with Trump’s America, but in a world dominated by bullies, sharp elbows and unpredictability may be what the times demand. Joel Kotkin 2 Dec 2024 · 10 min read
Demographics Are Not Destiny, After All Trump’s reelection reflects the final exhaustion of the post-World War II liberal and conservative cultural consensuses. Razib Khan 28 Nov 2024 · 8 min read
Election Reflections The lessons of the 2024 election are complicated, but they certainly don’t foreclose the possibility of a sane, pro-freedom centre. Cathy Young 27 Nov 2024 · 15 min read
Donald Trump and the Great Man Theory of History As with Napoleon Bonaparte, one cannot confidently state that if Trump had never been born, someone like him would have done what he did. Jason Garshfield 22 Nov 2024 · 10 min read
The Centre Must Rise No centrist who understands the current moment has ever truly laid out their case to the Democratic Party base in the context of a serious political campaign. It’s time to change that. Jack Despain Zhou 13 Nov 2024 · 8 min read
Twilight of the American Century The people may have spoken, but the options with which they were presented were not befitting of a serious country. Brian Stewart 7 Nov 2024 · 7 min read
Revenge of the Silent Male Voter What I learned about Trump’s landslide victory from one night in New York City. Claire Lehmann 6 Nov 2024 · 4 min read
Kamala Harris’s Very Big Tent Can Kamala Harris be the stateswoman that the United States and the free world so urgently need? Jeffrey Herf 26 Aug 2024 · 10 min read
Populists Before Trump John Ganz’s lively new book provides a valuable account of the intellectual origins of Trumpism. Leon Hadar 20 Aug 2024 · 9 min read
American Assassinations Four deaths, two critical injuries, and three hairbreadth escapes. Not the best odds in a field of 46 presidents, so when one dodges a bullet, we’ve all been lucky. Thomas Doherty 21 Jul 2024 · 10 min read
It’s the Narrative, Stupid! Every time there is a shooting, everybody turns to their narrative. We all want our stories to be vindicated, and we are perplexed if the expected pattern does not emerge. Fred Litwin 18 Jul 2024 · 7 min read
Donald Trump and the Perils of Myth-Making In the wake of the shooting, we should neither demonise nor sanctify Trump, but assess him by normal political standards. Jason Garshfield 17 Jul 2024 · 7 min read
A Wretched Situation The failure of the Secret Service to provide adequate protection to a standard-bearer for one of the major parties is the latest example of American breakdown. Brian Stewart 16 Jul 2024 · 6 min read
Courage and Cowardice in Pennsylvania In trying to assassinate Donald Trump, Thomas Matthew Crooks inadvertently provided Trump with an opportunity to display the very qualities that have made him a cult icon. Claire Lehmann 15 Jul 2024 · 7 min read
Nationalist Self-Hatred The culture war alone cannot explain the civic rot on the populist Right. Matt Johnson 12 Mar 2024 · 18 min read
