Who won the Cold War, anyway?
Conservatism may have won the Cold War, but conservatives lost the peace in the West
Daniel McCarthy
Daniel McCarthy is a US columnist for The Spectator and is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review.
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Welcome to the age of entropy
Our direction is not toward liberalism, but away from order of any kind
Friday
The vanishing presidency
From our UK edition
Joe Biden is beginning to feel like an ex-president after only nine months in office. The last two Democrats to occupy the White House, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, arrived with a spirit of renewal, not to mention tremendous legislative ambitions. Biden came in with a spirit of reversal: he was not Trump. His selling
Saturday
The War on Terror is a war of religion
From our UK edition
Compare the world 20 years after the 9/11 attacks to the world two decades after Pearl Harbour. World War Two was a vivid presence in popular culture and national memory in 1961, but America in the first year of John F. Kennedy’s administration was in no sense living in the shadow of Japan’s attack. That
Sunday
Who lost Afghanistan?
Biden has made grave mistakes. Withdrawal isn’t one of them
Friday
The last war for democracy
Islamism has every reason to triumph in Afghanistan. But its triumph may be its undoing
Monday
The American epoch of failure
A lost war does less damage to a country like the United States than a war that cannot be won
Thursday
The Democrats should investigate themselves for insurrection
The attempt to demonize the vast majority of January 6 protesters who did not break the law is the real threat to democratic freedom
Friday
How to win the culture war
If the right will take a stand against the new racial obsessions, the American public stands ready to give its support
Wednesday
Donald Rumsfeld succeeded at everything — so why did he fail in the end?
The former defense secretary died aged 88 on Thursday
Wednesday
Is J.D. Vance the right man for the right?
The author’s prospective Senate bid is interesting as more than just a test of Trumpism without Trump
Friday
Is Sohrab Ahmari a Satanic ogre?
The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos by Sohrab Ahmari reviewed
Thursday
Joe Biden’s party is over
Washington, DC The Democratic party is dying. That may be hard to believe since Democrats control both houses of Congress and won the last presidential election with a record 81 million votes. But the exiguous margins of their hold on the House and Senate, with fewer than 51 per cent of the seats in either
Monday
Last chance to end the tech tyranny
Big Tech’s unchecked power serves a moral vision as comprehensive as that of any religion
Monday
The Republican party has taken over Donald Trump
Trumpism and the GOP are turning into a new blob
Thursday
Death by debt
As long as demand holds up, the debt will only deepen
Wednesday
Rush Limbaugh, conservative rebel
Limbaugh brought rock’s irreverence to conservative commentary
Tuesday
The death of the Republican right has been greatly exaggerated
Predictions of GOP doom have a long history of being wrong
Friday
What does Trump want now? Revenge — and a second term
From our UK edition
The figure of the ex-president is one of the most endearingly republican features of American politics. He who was the most powerful man in the world for as many as eight years turns overnight into a political fossil. He’s no longer the leader of his party, much less his country. Whether in his fifties or
Tuesday
America’s Yeltsin moment
Trump was the mildest of corrections to the failures of post-Cold War liberalism
