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Last Boys at the Beginning of History January 23, 2025
The “great man” theory of history lost favor a century ago, and for decades university faculty have found it quaint, vulgar or problematic. Like other ideas that right-thinking people long ago discarded, its disreputable status hasn’t stopped many fr...
Trump Is Uncool. And That’s a Good Thing. January 22, 2025
On January 20, 2009, a few journalists crowded into my apartment in New York, and we had brunch and cocktails, and two or three people smoked cigarettes, and we watched Barack Obama become the 44th president....
Dave Chappelle’s Sincere Plea on Saturday Night Live January 22, 2025
No matter how much has changed over the past decade, one thing remains true: Saturday Night Live never brings in Dave Chappelle for a filler episode. The comedian has now hosted the show four times in just more than eight years, each stint coming on ...
The Alliance Between Tech Titans & the MAGA Faithful January 20, 2025
On Sunday evening, the night before Donald Trump’s second inauguration, scores of “luminaries from across the New Right” are expected to gather for a dinner and gala called the Coronation Ball at the Watergate Hotel. The event is being hosted by the ...
The End of the End of Men January 17, 2025
The patriarchy died in its sleep sometime during Obama’s first term. Or so goes the argument of The End of Men, a 2012 polemic that’s being revisited in the wake of the election. As Donald Trump aggressively courted young men on his way to victory, t...
"BACKBONE" by Karl Zinsmeister January 13, 2025
Middle America is in rebellion today. Ordinary people are objecting to bureaucratic coercion, manipulations of speech, redefinitions of sex and family, racial nostrums, strictures on economic freedom, and pressure to conform with new progressive narr...
It Can’t Just Be DOGE January 10, 2025
President-elect Donald Trump’s return to Washington will surely bring with it a renewed focus on the administrative state and its excesses. Exemplifying that effort is the much–media–maligned Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, headed by El...
How the New York Post Wins January 10, 2025
Explaining the New York Post to anyone who is not from New York is always difficult. This left-leaning city has a daily newspaper that is owned by a right-wing media tycoon and this newspaper’s politics, generally, aren’t aligning with the 68 percent...
Donald Trump, the Smokers’ President January 08, 2025
You’re not supposed to inhale the smoke from cigars. Some have up to 25 times more nicotine than a single cigarette. But that’s what I was doing with the ones that were sent to me by Michael Knowles. So I felt a little lightheaded as the Daily Wire c...
Schoolhouse Crock January 07, 2025
Linda McMahon will “empower the next Generation of American Students and Workers, and make America Number One in Education in the World,” Donald Trump recently effused about his nominee for secretary of education. Although Trump himself has promised ...
How RealClear Will Cover the New Administration December 23, 2024
Dear Reader,When Donald Trump returns to the White House, you can be sure that RealClearPolitics will feature supporters of his agenda. And also critics.RCP has covered the Biden presidency in the same way, showing perspectives from all sides. The Re...
The Cruelty Is the Point December 23, 2024
After Donald Trump won reelection, scores of Americans once again failed to make good on their loudly shared and oft-repeated plan of moving to Canada; but a good number of them did partake in a different, rather less cumbersome, exodus. Complaining ...
Donald Trump’s Cultural Renaissance December 23, 2024
It is certainly possible to hope that the inauguration of Donald J. Trump will be greeted by a resurgence of the American spirit, from new inventions to a revival of entrepreneurial drive and the renewal of American industry and crafts. Trump may wel...
How Wrestling Helped Trump Win the White House December 23, 2024
It’s a warm, beery August afternoon in Cleveland, Ohio, and a vast man called Matthew Justice is being beaten bloody on the street. His antagonist, Chuck Stone, slams Justice through a plywood table, scattering splinters. Then he hits him with a chai...
Trump, Monarchy and the Waning Power of Hollywood December 18, 2024
Donald Trump has yet to comment on the Prince Andrew ‘Chinese spy’ story, and online sleuths are already trying to join the vague dots between Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and the Duke of York. But the real story about Donald Trump and monarchy is the ext...
A Civilization, Not a Voting Bloc December 16, 2024
The U.S. Latino shift to the political right is undeniable. Last month, not only did Donald Trump win more Hispanic-American votes than any Republican candidate in recent history, but he won more in all the border counties in Texas, where he is plann...
Positively Bob's Tweets December 13, 2024
In the wake of Donald Trump’s reelection, users have fled Elon Musk’s X platform en masse, heading for greener pastures and bluer skies. The Everything App has, however, gained one notable new user in the midst of the tempest. People are crazy, times...
The Anti-Woke King of Hollywood Lets Loose December 13, 2024
It’s not often that a TV show not only nails the zeitgeist but anticipates it—that zeitgeist being the election of Donald Trump and concomitant rebuke of the Democratic political-cultural agenda. Make that TV shows, plural, all from the ridiculously ...
America’s Impotent Elite December 09, 2024
Has the celebrity era in American politics come to a close?This might seem like a peculiar question to ask in the wake of Donald Trump’s second presidential victory. Here he comes, again, the faded reality TV star-turned-world-historical disruptor, a...
Decline of Evangelicalism Helped Elect Trump December 09, 2024
A whopping 80% of evangelicals voted for President-elect Donald Trump in 2024. But behind that headline number, the dramatic fall in these Christian’s cultural influence played a much more profound role in Trump’s victories than evangelical voters di...
A Resilience Paradigm for Trade December 09, 2024
After several decades during which tariffs were discarded by the bipartisan establishment, trade protectionism is back at the center of American politics. Donald Trump ran and won on tariffs in 2016, put them at the heart of his triumphant 2024 campa...
Trump Should Restart His Bid to Defend America’s Heritage December 04, 2024
Donald Trump has big Day 1 decisions to make. Monumental ones, in fact.Such as the decision to champion America’s heritage again.Courtesy of our elite, that heritage was under attack during his first term....
Break the Sex Strike December 03, 2024
In the wake of Donald Trump’s re-election, American women horrified by the prospect of lost reproductive rights and the apparent triumph of hegemonic masculinity have taken to social media to announce their intention to swear off men. “All I have to ...
Donald Trump: Crypto President November 29, 2024
What is the underlying value of a clam? In short, nothing. But the clamshell was the world’s longest-lasting reserve currency, recognised globally for thousands of years as a store of value and a medium of exchange. The clamshell was the money Englis...
Where Trump’s Washington Will Actually Be Hanging Out November 27, 2024
Where will conservatives and Donald Trump’s disciples spend their non-working hours in DC for the president-elect’s term? The Washingtonian provided a list by Jessica Sidman last week, but by Cockburn’s estimation, it’s not totally over the target....
