Life after liberalism
As its institutional order rots, will the American right be ascendant?
Daniel McCarthy is a US columnist for The Spectator and is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review.
As its institutional order rots, will the American right be ascendant?
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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
The left succeeds through the blood of sacrifice
The more power the left gains, the more obvious its failures become
The West’s best hope is to rediscover a self-affirming anti-imperialism on the nationalist right
And his invasion of Ukraine shows how far he’s willing to go to achieve it
They live in an eternal present that must be defended against a dreadful future
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
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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
Our choices are constrained by the needs of our internal order
Conservatism may have won the Cold War, but conservatives lost the peace in the West
Our direction is not toward liberalism, but away from order of any kind
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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
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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
Biden has made grave mistakes. Withdrawal isn’t one of them
Islamism has every reason to triumph in Afghanistan. But its triumph may be its undoing
A lost war does less damage to a country like the United States than a war that cannot be won
The attempt to demonize the vast majority of January 6 protesters who did not break the law is the real threat to democratic freedom
If the right will take a stand against the new racial obsessions, the American public stands ready to give its support