Pete Spiliakos is a columnist for First Things.
For many liberal activists, fear of Trump is fear that what they would have done with power now will be done unto them. Continue Reading »
I spent the 1990s and the first half of the previous decade thinking way too much about cutting taxes and way too little about labor-force participation and family structure among America’s low-skilled workforce. I had the vague idea that, if taxes were low and efficient, the rest would work out . . . . Continue Reading »
Perhaps no error looms larger in contemporary American politics than Iraq. Continue Reading »
If we don’t give voters a more accountable Congress, don’t be surprised if they want an unaccountable president to take down a corrupt and unresponsive system. Consider Trump a warning. Continue Reading »
Calling Donald “Only I can fix it” Trump a constitutionalist empties the term “constitutionalist” of any connection to our actual Constitution, or even to the small-c constitutionalism of respect for the rule of law. Continue Reading »
Cohen declares, “No outcome in Syria could be worse than the current one.” He seems to have a high degree of confidence that if the United States had bombed the Assad regime, it would have produced a more peaceful Syria. Maybe it would have. Or maybe bombing—or perhaps better to say, merely bombing—the Assad forces would have produced only a different kind of hell. Continue Reading »
Being the candidate of social-conservative conviction politics was Buchanan’s appeal. But in today's political landscape, social conservatives need to reach beyond their base. Continue Reading »
Baffled conservatives should take the time to talk to real Trump supporters, not internet provocateurs. Continue Reading »
Surely it is less important that a speech be optimistic or pessimistic, than that it be true to the realities of the moment, true to the capabilities of the government, and true to the responsibilities of the citizenry. Continue Reading »
Beating the Left will mean answering the questions people are really asking about the world they really live in. Continue Reading »
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