Daniel McCarthy is a US columnist for The Spectator and is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review.
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On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Luke Coppen looks at a new musical subgenre of Roman Catholic black metal; Mary Wakefield celebrates cartoonist Michael Heath as he turns 90 – meaning he has drawn for the Spectator for 75 years; looking to Venezuela, Daniel McCarthy warns Trump about the perils of regime change; Michael Simmons
Few Americans find much to celebrate in the Iraq War or the intervention in Libya. Regimes were successfully changed, but what came after Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi was civil war, regional instability and mass migration that exported many of those nations’ troubles to their neighbours. Now the Donald Trump administration wants to do to
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The decoupling of the working class from the Democrats is one of Clinton’s enduring legacies
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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
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Trump’s words on Truth Social describe a very familiar game
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Disagreeing with the left, or the right, doesn’t make you a bad person – celebrating naked evil does
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Kirk’s murder should spur the administration to compel colleges to live up to their duty to the public and to their own students
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Make government agencies serve social conservative ends and what will be the left’s response?
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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
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The former congressman showed what an anti-establishment campaign within the GOP could achieve
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He isn’t going to repeat his predecessors’ folly
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The battle on the streets of LA is between two very different ideas of government
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At home and abroad, the question is no longer ‘which system is best?’ but ‘whose land is this?’
President Trump is an America Firster, but he has an undeniable affinity for the Arab world. He would have made a good sheik: he doesn’t drink, he loves developing flashy properties to show off his power and wealth, and he’s brutally realistic about the role of oil (and other commodities) in world politics. In his
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There’s another office Trump could seek – one that affords as much protection from prosecution or assassination as the presidency does
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The next 1,361 days (or more) will be as wild as the past 100
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If this is a new Cold War, it’s one that’s very different from the contest with the Soviet Union
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What’s significant for the American left today is not what keeps communism going, but what gets it started
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The Trump of 2025 wants something larger than the presidency
