The fight for liberalism
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American hegemony in the service of a liberal world order no longer protects our civilization
Daniel McCarthy is a US columnist for The Spectator and is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review.
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American hegemony in the service of a liberal world order no longer protects our civilization
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There are upsides to giving Joe Biden unbridled power
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Seventy-five years after the end of World War Two we still have forces in Britain, Japan, Germany and Italy
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American politics is full of irony as a result of the separation of powers
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The only thing coming on if Biden wins is another round of hopeless foreign interventionism and nation-building
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The American political system is much more dynamic and self-reactive than either left-wing or right-wing activists assume
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Mail-in voting undermines elections
The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a terrible blow to Democrats, but there is an important point to be considered – the principled arguments Democrats made in 2016 after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia prevail. Democrats insisted that the Scalia vacancy should be filled swiftly by President Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland, but
As voters prepare to pass judgment on Donald Trump’s presidency in November, they might want to entertain a few counterfactuals. Imagine that Russia had annexed Crimea during the Trump years rather than while Obama was president. MSNBC and other left-wing media would have hawked claims that Trump actively conspired with Putin to let the Russian
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Trump is using Biden’s inertia and lack of a positive agenda to define the Democrat
Joe Biden’s range of emotional expression has narrowed with age – when he wants to convey feeling now, he shouts. Anger is the only thing that gets through, even when he’s trying to be hopeful or inspiring. And his acceptance remarks at the Democratic convention were well short of inspirational: the nominee didn’t seem tired,
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The rich will do well in Biden-Harris America, the middle class will be in life support and the violent will be unhampered
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Progressive liberals get a psychic reward from incanting the right words
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Politics is less bedeviled by the age of the parties’ leaders than by the staleness of the parties’ programs
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With Daniel McCarthy, contributor to Spectator USA and editor of Modern Age. On the podcast, he talks to Freddy Gray about how Sessions was defeated by the new cyborg that is the Republican party — half-Trump, half-GOP machine of old, and what this means for Trump’s re-election prospects.
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He was defeated by the new cyborg that is the Republican party — half-Trump, half-GOP machine of old
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The attempt to prettify history is ugly
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Reagan was tarred as an extremist in much the same terms as Trump. Yet the neocons supported him
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Corporate America wants you to know it totally rejects imperialism and racism. Just not the Chinese variety
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This is the most sterile rebellion any country has ever seen