For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This is, of course, an axiom of Newtonian physics — but also an oddly consistent phenomenon in the political sphere. Moderation and ...

The Republican Party was torn asunder by a populist media personality running a nationalist campaign based on immigration restriction, protectionism, and an anti-internationalist foreign policy.

Jim asks whether there is anything paleoconservatives could have done to retain or expand their influence. Here is one idea: they could have stuck with paleoconservatism. Let’s look at what we know ...

Joseph Scotchie’s Revolt from the Heartland is not, as some readers might guess from the title, about the terrorism of right-wing militias in the Midwestern United States, although some readers might ...

What Is Somaliland, and Do We Have to Care About It? Gender-Affirming Care Ignores Human Physiology France’s Populist Surge Is a Cautionary Tale for America’s Right Mixed Vaccine Messages Threaten ...

Donald Trump secured the presidency by forging a scary coalition of conservative forces and effectively playing upon many Americans worst fears. His coalition includes his MAGA base and Christian ...

Your support goes further this holiday season. When you buy an annual membership or give a one-time contribution, we’ll give a membership to someone who can’t afford access. It’s a simple way for you ...

For most of the last 18 months, Donald Trump has been portrayed as a clown, a showman, an opportunist, a faux conservative, a political naïf, and an egomaniac bent on nothing but power and glory—but ...

Challenges to the liberal international order have tended to focus on the politics of populism most often traced to reactions against economic dislocation and mass migration. Parts of this portrait ...

Writing in Modern Age, Richard J. Bishirjian concludes an essay on "Why I Am A Conservative" with this peroration: How, then, do we successfully save a public space for ordered living? First, of ...

The election of Donald Trump seems so shocking, so unprecedented, that most pundits are treating the election as a unique rupture in American political history. That's an understandable reaction to ...