The future looks Republican
The winner Democrats picked in 2020 has turned them into long-range losers
Daniel McCarthy
Daniel McCarthy is a US columnist for The Spectator and is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review.
Friday
Wednesday
NATO’s post-Cold War strategy has been a disaster
The alliance is fighting for its life — and dying
Friday
The rise of the popcons
Rejecting populism led the post-Reagan GOP to defeat and disaster
Monday
The once and future president?
All Trump has to do is stay out of jail long enough to get back into the Oval Office
Sunday
How the Ukraine war remade our world
Victory against Russia will always be just around the corner
Sunday
Will DeSantis lose if he runs to the right of Trump?
An anti-Democrat, somewhat anti-Republican and not consistently conservative candidate may be exactly what GOP voters want
Thursday
Why Ron DeSantis should wait for 2028
Thanks to Don, Ron doesn’t have a clear shot next year
Tuesday
How to win the war that everyone is losing
Europe must be left to police Europe and Asia to police Asia
Monday
How Pat Buchanan redefined the twenty-first century
What a pity that his warnings were not heeded twenty-five years earlier
Wednesday
Tocqueville’s warning about the Democrats
The emotional glue of the Democratic coalition is resentment of the Republican coalition
Tuesday
The liberal-conservative tug of war for the GOP
The party faces a choice between its nationalist and liberal wings
Monday
What conservatives lack
What the cultured right needs is what the left has: an avant-garde
Monday
This election was no loss for Trump
Incumbents of all bents were returned to office, and the right still has all the energy
Sunday
What price must the West pay for Crimea?
We cannot leave the most consequential decisions for humanity to be made by Moscow
Tuesday
Dobbs won’t save the Democrats
In a choice between abortion absolutism and a variety of approaches, variety will prevail
Monday
DeSantis is a Republican establishment win-win
The populist heart may want Trump, but many heads are for the Florida governor
Monday
Life after liberalism
As its institutional order rots, will the American right be ascendant?
Thursday
Martyrs win the culture wars
The left succeeds through the blood of sacrifice
Saturday
Liberalism gave us this hard new right
The more power the left gains, the more obvious its failures become
Monday
Why Putin won’t save NATO
The West’s best hope is to rediscover a self-affirming anti-imperialism on the nationalist right
