The classroom panopticon
America’s elite has been cowardly and conformist for too long, with effects that are only too obvious
Daniel McCarthy
Daniel McCarthy is a US columnist for The Spectator and is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review.
Monday
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
Friday
Who is the new House Speaker?
From our UK edition
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Amber Athey and Daniel McCarthy editor of Modern Age Journal and columnist at The Spectator join the Americano podcast to breakdown the long House speaker battle which has finally culminated in Trumpist Mike Johnson getting selected.
Friday
The future looks Republican
The winner Democrats picked in 2020 has turned them into long-range losers
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
