Daniel McCarthy is a US columnist for The Spectator and is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review.
The Republican establishment is on the verge of extinction. Donald Trump’s first term wasn’t enough to kill it off: Trump came into office in 2017 with establishment figures such as Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan leading the party in Congress, and Trump’s own vice president, Mike Pence, had been chosen for that role as a
Nicolas Maduro is a very lucky man. The Venezuelan dictator – or ex-dictator now – might not feel that way as he enjoys the hospitality of the U.S. justice system after being snatched from the safety and comfort of his own capital on the orders of President Trump. But once he’s had a bit of
As President Trump’s first year back in office drew to a close, his enemies had high hopes they’d hit on a scandal that could do to his second term what the “Russian collusion” story had done to his first. Donald Trump didn’t have to be found guilty of any wrongdoing tied to Jeffrey Epstein’s sleaze.
Politics is very much a presence on the capital’s stages
Will his like ever come again?
He risks being bounced into an unpopular foreign war
The decoupling of the working class from the Democrats is one of Clinton’s enduring legacies
The demographics of the United States and Europe suggest the left and right alike will feel the need to enlist support beyond Judeo-Christian boundaries
Trump’s words on Truth Social describe a very familiar game
Disagreeing with the left, or the right, doesn’t make you a bad person – celebrating naked evil does
Kirk’s murder should spur the administration to compel colleges to live up to their duty to the public and to their own students
Make government agencies serve social conservative ends and what will be the left’s response?
Surely at some point gravity must triumph over the tightrope-walker? Don’t count on it
The former congressman showed what an anti-establishment campaign within the GOP could achieve
He isn’t going to repeat his predecessors’ folly
The battle on the streets of LA is between two very different ideas of government
At home and abroad, the question is no longer ‘which system is best?’ but ‘whose land is this?’
There’s another office Trump could seek – one that affords as much protection from prosecution or assassination as the presidency does
The next 1,361 days (or more) will be as wild as the past 100
If this is a new Cold War, it’s one that’s very different from the contest with the Soviet Union
