How Pat Buchanan redefined the twenty-first century
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What a pity that his warnings were not heeded twenty-five years earlier
Daniel McCarthy is a US columnist for The Spectator and is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review.
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What a pity that his warnings were not heeded twenty-five years earlier
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The emotional glue of the Democratic coalition is resentment of the Republican coalition
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The party faces a choice between its nationalist and liberal wings
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What the cultured right needs is what the left has: an avant-garde
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Freddy Gray speaks to the editor of Modern Age Daniel McCarthy about the former president’s chances for a comeback.
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Incumbents of all bents were returned to office, and the right still has all the energy
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We cannot leave the most consequential decisions for humanity to be made by Moscow
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In a choice between abortion absolutism and a variety of approaches, variety will prevail
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The populist heart may want Trump, but many heads are for the Florida governor
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As its institutional order rots, will the American right be ascendant?
Sometime this century, or early in the next, women will no longer have to give birth. Already conception can take place within a test tube, and incubators have pushed back the earliest time when prematurely born infants can survive outside of the womb. We can edit genes and modify animal organs for successful implantation into
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The left succeeds through the blood of sacrifice
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The more power the left gains, the more obvious its failures become
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The West’s best hope is to rediscover a self-affirming anti-imperialism on the nationalist right
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And his invasion of Ukraine shows how far he’s willing to go to achieve it
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They live in an eternal present that must be defended against a dreadful future
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For many activists, Glenn Youngkin is the face of a GOP that can win — with or without Trump
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2022 has only just begun but a lot of minds in American politics are already looking towards the next presidential election in 2024. For the Republicans, the big question is will Donald Trump be their nominee and if he isn’t who will fill that very large hole? Freddy Gray sits down with the editor of
If you’re tired of hypochondriac journalists’ takes on January 6, then try Thomas Jefferson’s. He delivered his judgment on events of that sort back in 1787. ‘I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing,’ he wrote to James Madison, ‘and as necessary in the political world as storms in
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Our choices are constrained by the needs of our internal order