The Democratic war machine
What’s significant for the American left today is not what keeps communism going, but what gets it started
Daniel McCarthy
Daniel McCarthy is a US columnist for The Spectator and is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review.
Wednesday
Thursday
The grandeur of Trump’s tariffs
The Trump of 2025 wants something larger than the presidency
Thursday
Landlord Trump, the tenants’ best bet
America has been lecturing other nations about how they keep their own houses — if indeed they are their own — for decades
Monday
How Trump is revolutionizing Washington
He’ll lose some battles in the courts, perhaps a great many. But what counts is how many he wins
Friday
Shooing away the ghosts of Clinton and Blair
Donald Trump didn’t just win an election last year, he performed an exorcism
Thursday
The Democrats need a new rulebook
At the start of this century the party had a very clear picture of what the future was supposed to look like. Trump proved it a mirage
Thursday
Panicking over the planet and population is pointless
We have to look at history and give careful thought to the world’s complexity
Monday
The classroom panopticon
America’s elite has been cowardly and conformist for too long, with effects that are only too obvious
Thursday
The pro-life problem
Abortion opponents will have to bring about a change in the public’s values as profound as the one wrought by supporters of same-sex marriage
Monday
Is the fate of democracy truly at stake?
The deepest threat to democracy in our time comes from progressives who reject localized self-government itself
Thursday
Soviet America’s revolutionary wars
The Evil Empire failed to avert its destruction by exporting revolution beyond its borders. A self-righteous liberal empire will fare no better
Monday
What is war good for in the twenty-first century?
Israel and Russia — very different countries, morally and otherwise — should be asking themselves today
Anne Applebaum’s solutions to the ‘threat’ of autocracy
Autocracy, Inc. is woefully inadequate to the times in which it appears
Wednesday
Biden’s base rebels over Gaza
Progressives hate Trump. But they hate Israel’s war more
Tuesday
Israel and the making of nations
The country is a test case for the survival of nationalism everywhere
Sunday
Lessons from costly wars past
American credibility is said to be at stake in Ukraine. This is tragically true
Thursday
Donald Trump and the clash of realities
Reality itself is contested today in a way that goes beyond anything in earlier US history
Tuesday
The populism of Machiavelli and Jefferson
In America today, our virtues and successes are our undoing, much more than our vices or failures
Wednesday
The 2024 regime referendum
When voters go to the polls in November, everyone will know that with Trump on the ballot the regime is on trial
Tuesday
Israel’s imperial problem is ours, too
The country is facing today a dilemma that the West will face tomorrow
