Christopher Caldwell is a contributing editor of the Claremont Review of Books and the author of The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties.
New York’s new mayor is woke. The Ugandan-born Muslim leftist Zohran Mamdani imperils the city as we know it, some people grumble. In a recent letter to supporters, Republican Representative Nancy Mace warned that Mamdani was “a man who’s bringing SHARIA LAW to America.” Of course, Sharia and woke are not the same thing. Mamdani’s
Ten days after Thanksgiving, news watchers were exposed to one of the more culturally incongruous images in recent history: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron beaming in front of the British Prime Minister’s house at 10 Downing Street, giving each other the locked-thumbs handshake familiar to African-American jazz musicians and professional athletes
If the boomers wanted something, they got it, by force of numbers
There may be method to his madness
The doctrine boils down to this: the more threatening a person is, the less threatening he is
Liberal economies, which promise prosperity, cannot produce the main thing they need to guarantee it
We will need well-trained natural brains if we are to keep the artificial brains we have created under control
Jordon Hudson’s relationship with a five-decades-older boyfriend would be of no interest to the public were that boyfriend not a genius
For the whole of its political history, the EU has been in harmony with the Democratic party
Trump has redirected the mighty regulatory powers of the civil-rights system against his political adversaries
Changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico is the act of a puny country, not a great one
Luxury retail is as cheugy as any other kind
How does it feel to be an American tourist in such a tourist-free world?
Americans will name their children for euphony’s sake
A tweed confers, and expresses, the manly freedom of paying no mind to one’s appearance
For about a dozen square blocks in its center, 18th-century Easton is as European-looking as any small town in the United States
The first election day since Donald Trump was elected president a year ago brought a funereal mood to Washington that you could feel on the streets. The swamp, apparently, remains undrained. Elections for governor in Virginia and New Jersey and for mayor in New York City cheered the locals a bit, producing the expected victories
The viruses-don’t-respect-borders slogan is dead wrong
The first sign that Matteo Salvini was destined to do battle with Emmanuel Macron came in June, a few days after he was named Italy’s interior minister. Salvini, whose party, the League, wants to cut immigration drastically, announced that a German-registered rescue ship carrying 629 aspiring migrants from Africa would not be allowed to dock
