Bernie Sanders

Biden’s Comeback

Joe Biden will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2020. Continue Reading »

Rousseau, Sanders, and the Religious Test

Earlier this month, Sanders appeared not to understand that there is no justice where religious liberty lacks protection. Continue Reading »

Political Animals

Our current political problems are rooted in the long and messy history of what makes politics, well, politics. Continue Reading »

Bernie Sanders and the Atomized Republic

Beating the Left will mean answering the questions people are really asking about the world they really live in. Continue Reading »

The Disconnected Establishment

Rod Dreher recently posted excerpts of a letter from one of his readers. It was an extended, largely negative assessment of my analysis of our political moment, “An Abandoned White Middle Class.” There I argued that the changing nature of our leadership class explains the populist rebellion, at . . . . Continue Reading »

An Abandoned White Middle Class

Is First Things promoting its own form of identity politics? A friend wrote recently, wondering exactly that. In my writing about our populist moment, I’ve emphasized the role of middle class whites. The relative success of Trump and Sanders shows that they’re rebelling against both left-leaning . . . . Continue Reading »

The Republican Message of Hate?

You can always count on establishment liberals. On cue, the New York Times editors today commented on the Iowa caucus, speaking of Marco Rubio as trying “to put a younger and more charming face on the basic Republican message of anger, xenophobia, fear and hate.” The implication, of course, is . . . . Continue Reading »

Trump, Sanders, and the Middle Class

Last week I contributed to the National Review symposium, “Conservatives Against Trump.” I was happy to do so. Donald Trump manifests the post-political mentality of our time, encouraging the idea that our problems boil down to stupid, weak, corrupt people being in charge, and that all we need . . . . Continue Reading »

Socialism in America?

Americans once regarded socialism with a mixture of fear and bemusement. Why then have so many lost this fear such that they are prepared to put a socialist in the Oval Office? Continue Reading »

2016 Presidential Candidates as Described by the Smash-Hit Musical Hamilton

Hillary Clinton

It must be nice, it must be nice
To have Washington on your side

Bernie Sanders

Scratch that
This is not a moment it’s the movement
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