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Young Man, There’s No Need to Feel Down February 27, 2025
To understand how much work Democrats have to do to reverse their slide among young men, a key factor in President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, look no further than the “Who We Serve” section of the Democratic Party’s website....
The Power of American Originals February 26, 2025
“In the US, voters just loosed a genuine bull into the china shop of the ruling class.”Karl Zinsmeister, 2025BACKBONE: Maverick Essays in Middle America: Why American Populism Should be Welcomed, Not Feared is a collection of short essays about Ameri...
The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now February 11, 2025
A generation on from the fall of the Soviet Union, the intellectual and political class in the democratic world still fails to grapple with the totalitarian episode that upended civilized life and politics for most of the twentieth century. That fail...
How the Democrats Bud Lighted Their Brand November 15, 2024
Last spring, a marketing grunt at Bud Light sent TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney, a trans woman, custom cans of beer featuring her picture. As intended, Mulvaney posted about the beer on social media, igniting a firestorm and a boycott of the brand. Men r...
The History of Wokeness November 14, 2024
Over the summer, I drove down to one of the numerous beach towns in Ocean County, New Jersey with two friends: one is a cop, the other a special ed teacher and athletic coach; both are black Americans in their late 20s. Over a dinner of chicken franc...
The Bewilderment of the Pod Boys November 13, 2024
On a long drive the day after Trump’s victory, after absolutely no sleep, deeply hungover, I turned to liberal radio as a much-needed painkiller. First I tried NPR, but even their coping and seething was too appalling to bear. So I sought out another...
Can Democrats Compete With the Rogan-verse? November 13, 2024
“I want to thank the Nelk Boys, Adin Ross, Theo Von, Bussin’ With the Boys, and last but not least, the mighty and powerful Joe Rogan,” said UFC CEO Dana White when handed the microphone during Donald Trump’s victory speech on election night. Rather ...
Why #MeToo Generation Young Men Swung to Trump November 12, 2024
This commentary was published in partnership with Unherd.The days when most young voters, whether male or female, would reliably vote Democrat are over. Among the axiomatic election patterns smashed by Donald Trump, young men have swung to the Republ...
Can Democrats Keep Young Men From Turning Fascist? November 12, 2024
Noted animal mutilator and brain-worm host Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hopes to run the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services, or even the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the second Trump administration. No...
How Could This Happen? November 11, 2024
Imagine that Kamala Harris had won the presidential election. In the days following, there would be two dominant sorts of commentary. The first would focus on what the victory would say about the American people and the Democratic Party: that the goo...
Revolt of the Normies November 08, 2024
On Tuesday night, Donald Trump came back with a bang. The former president is on track to win not just the Electoral College but the popular vote. Vice President Kamala Harris didn’t overperform in a single state, and lost significantly in many of th...
Total Victory November 08, 2024
Madness, memes, and media malfeasance (must be Tuesday). It’s embarrassing to admit, but just a little earlier this year I thought the election would be boring. Sure, the Democrats were calling Donald Trump a fascist, but they do that every four year...
Is the Gen Z Bro Media Diet to Blame? November 08, 2024
Among the many questions that will be sure to plague Democrats in the months following Kamala Harris’s defeat in the 2024 presidential election: What is happening with Gen Z men?Could it be that growing up in a fundamentally different media environme...
Revenge of the Silent Male Voter November 07, 2024
On election day, I caught the subway from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Sitting across from me, an elderly woman wore a T-shirt with the image of Trump pumping his fist in the air with the words “fight, fight.” A small “I Voted” sticker was pressed onto her...
In the Grip of Madness November 04, 2024
Conservatives give Kamala Harris and her allies too much credit when they say she is gaslighting Americans by insisting that Donald Trump is the second coming of Adolf Hitler and that his tens of millions of supporters are budding brown-shirts.Gaslig...
The Smearing of Gay Republicans November 01, 2024
The issue of childhood transitions is a personal one for Clarkson Lawson, a 26-year-old gay content creator who’s voting for Donald Trump for president next week. I met him for coffee in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida, last month. He’s spoken out a...
Bad News for Democrats in Pennsylvania’s ‘Latino Belt’ February 12, 2024
HAZLETON, Pennsylvania — In the final hours before residents cast their votes here last November, Mayor Aneudy Ortiz Sajiun worked the wards of this northeastern Pennsylvania city of 30,000 in the hopes of ensuring a third consecutive term in City Ha...
The Young Black Conservative Who Rejects D.E.I. February 02, 2024
For many progressives, it was a big moment. In 2019, Congress was holding its first hearing on whether the United States should pay reparations for slavery.To support the idea, Democrats had invited the influential author Ta-Nehisi Coates, who had re...
Igniting an Appreciation for Abraham Lincoln in Children February 02, 2024
Historians and the general public regularly rank Abraham Lincoln as America’s greatest president. There is little doubt that he is widely admired for the work he did to end slavery and preserve the Union.But beyond these two important points, most Am...
The Majority That Didn’t Emerge November 21, 2023
If nature abhors a vacuum, then American politics rebuffs linear extrapolations. History is littered with trends that promised to give one party absolute dominance—until internal contradictions tore them apart.In 2002, journalist John B. Judis and th...
Spinning Through Time November 17, 2023
The following is a condensed version of "Spinning Through Time" by Asheesh Agarwal, published at Law & Liberty.What would it feel like to live in Middle Earth?In its adaptation of Robert Jordan’s classic series, Amazon Prime immerses viewers in the w...
The Most Important Election of Their Lifetimes November 14, 2023
Claiming that the coming presidential contest is “the most important election of our lifetime” is a quadrennial ritual in American politics. It’s almost never true.But it was true in 1844. The race between Henry Clay and James K. Polk proved to be ev...
Colleges Gave Birth to Cancel Culture November 09, 2023
The First Amendment wasn’t created to protect the interests of the rich and powerful. After all, the moneyed and influential have historically been protected by their wealth and power. And the United States didn’t need a special right to protect the ...
The Democratic Party’s at war with itself — and the West November 08, 2023
Joe Biden’s party is at war with itself.Scenes last weekend of protesters scaling the White House fence and shouting down Sen. Cory Booker at a New Jersey Democratic rally are only outward manifestations of a deeper inner turmoil.The Democratic Party...
A Wake-up Call For Israel—& America November 06, 2023
It was no surprise that the U.S. government threw its support behind Israel following the terrorist attacks on Israeli citizens on October 7. President Biden quickly defended Israel, declared himself to be a Zionist, and visited the country within da...
