The Ultimate Betrayal America just switched sides in the Ukraine war. Francis Fukuyama 21 Feb 2025 · 4 min read
American Exceptionalism Reconsidered Exceptionalism is a double-edged sword, which cuts those blind to America’s flaws and those blind to its virtues. Brian Stewart 10 Feb 2025 · 7 min read
Trump and the DEI Counter-Revolution Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it. Thomas F. Powers 8 Feb 2025 · 44 min read
Podcast #271: The Canadian Episode—Trump’s Tariffs and Trudeau’s Travails Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with The Line editor Jen Gerson about how US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats have affected Canada’s already fractured political landscape. Quillette 8 Feb 2025 · 14 min read
Gaz-a-Largo So far, Donald Trump is the only political leader to have publicly pinpointed the basic problem with Gaza. Benny Morris 8 Feb 2025 · 12 min read
A Pointless Economic Attack on America’s Northern Neighbour Many Canadian conservatives were warming to Donald Trump—until he threatened to destroy their economy with crippling tariffs. Jonathan Kay 5 Feb 2025 · 8 min read
The Hard and Soft New Right In Central and Eastern Europe, the more extreme wing of the continent’s radical Right is gaining ground. John Lloyd 27 Jan 2025 · 12 min read
How the Media Broke the Immigration Debate What good is a free press if it lacks the courage to ask difficult questions about our most important problems? Tomás Sidenfaden 21 Jan 2025 · 11 min read
Sanitising a Paranoid Crank Misleading and irresponsible journalism is being used to launder the reputation of RFK Jr. Matt Johnson 3 Dec 2024 · 10 min read
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
