New Rome, new home
I wonder whether the moment hasn’t come to begin thinking of Washington the way the later emperors thought of Rome
Features
Monday
Does the Orange Man have the juice?
Donald Trump is not just a problem for Republicans. He’s a problem for the Republic
Blackpill: inside the incel death cult
An online in-joke becomes real-world terrorism
How China meddles in American academia
Rather than facing up to the threat China poses on American college campuses, the White House seems to want us to get along happily with our friends across the Taiwan Strait
The other Camus
The gay past of the alt-right’s French guru
The multinational that ate Virginia
For many activists, Glenn Youngkin is the face of a GOP that can win — with or without Trump
Tweed is of the essence
A tweed confers, and expresses, the manly freedom of paying no mind to one’s appearance
Downloading God in the App Store
Is the concept of manna from Heaven really so different than ordering from Uber Eats or Postmates?
Harvard’s diversity disgrace
Why should Asians take one for the team?
Monday
Get set for the Great Reset
What our elites seek is coercion by apocalypse, transforming our free society as we know it
It’s the Dawn of Omicron
I’m more afraid of how governments will weaponize a new variant than of the Omicron variant itself
The China reckoning
The China ‘struggle’ that Xi lays before the world will define the next generation of American foreign and security policy
The dive is alive
When our restaurant scene is rebuilt, perhaps there will be room once again for the humble dive
How the 1960s institutionalized us
The long march of the cultural revolution has succeeded beyond its wildest dreams
The next chapter in American foreign policy
Our choices are constrained by the needs of our internal order
The Tudor roots of wokecraft
The Reformation was a top-down affair, an agenda imposed by a cultural and political elite
Eighty years after Wannsee
Jews should see existential threats for what they are
Will Armen Sarkissian save Armenia?
More than a year after war broke out, the country is in need of steady leadership
Are New England’s stone heaps Native Americans’ sacred ruins?
Native Americans are being exploited by self-interested settler-colonists — yet again
Bring back New York
The best city in the world is in decline and its denizens don’t seem to notice