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
Should the GOP Continue to Embrace Populism? Two Responses Quillette readers Joe Benning and Charles N.W. Keckler give their responses. Quillette 21 Sep 2022 · 8 min read
A Return to Tradition: Creating a Post-Trump Conservatism The survival of the American Republic might just depend upon it. Bo Winegard 25 Jan 2021 · 14 min read
Trump’s Exit: An Optimist’s Take on What Happens Next The open question is whether a critical mass of Americans actually want civility, bipartisanship, and moderation. Quillette 23 Jan 2021 · 6 min read
America Has Serious Problems. It’s Time to Stop Blaming Them on ‘Trumpism’ It is always tempting to portray one’s political opponents as consumed by some inveterate flaw or social contaminant that marks them as fallen creatures. Quillette 9 Nov 2020 · 10 min read
Podcast #121: The Inconvenient Truth About Donald Trump’s Non-White Supporters A conversation with Jamil Jivani. Quillette 6 Nov 2020 · 1 min read
The Simple Secret of Trump's Supreme Political Confidence: Old-Fashioned Fan Mail The CPAC crowd loved Trump’s message—not his theatrics or his celebrity, but his message—and the fervent reaction to him far out-stripped that of every other speaker, including the many White House hopefuls who sought the GOP nomination in 2012. Mark Halperin 29 Oct 2019 · 7 min read
Timely Return to Battle for a Veteran of the Culture Wars While Hanson is good in setting out the causes of Trump’s victory, he falls short when it comes to making recommendations for the future. Sumantra Maitra 22 Apr 2019 · 7 min read
Trump, Partisan Politics and Gay Rights The fact that the new initiative is being led by a gay man, U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, means little to these ideologues. In their narrative, Grenell is either a sellout or a stooge. Brad Polumbo 7 Mar 2019 · 5 min read
Mobs on the Menu: Restaurateurs and the Culture War The incident at The Griffin presents a case study in how relatively small groups of activists can now leverage their power on social media. Andy Ngo 20 Jul 2018 · 6 min read