Elliot Kaufman

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The editor of First Things defends the classical-liberal tradition against both its dogmatists and its opponents.

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Caroline Downey
Caroline Downey
The Trump Administration Marks Veterans Day with Meaningful VA Reform
AOC in 2028? Really?
Letitia James Turns a Blind Eye to Welfare Fraud in New York
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John R. Puri
Trump’s People May Have to Answer for Jensen Huang
Note to Senate: Don’t Remove Historic Preservation Reform
Oh, Now the Fed Needs to Rush on Inflation
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Kathryn Jean Lopez
Don’t You Ever Call AI ‘Mom’
These Nuns Won’t Kill. How About Defending Their Rights and Following Their Lead?
Pope Leo’s Victory Tour
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Joshua S. Treviño
What the Data Center Revolt Is Really About
The Golden Decade Is Gone
The Victims of 9/11 Deserved Better
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Inez Feltscher Stepman
How the Electoral College Dies
The Legal Origin Story of Wokeness Is a Map to Defeating Woke 2.0
Taking Stock of the Trump Administration’s Victories
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Christine Rosen
When the Political Circus Stops Being Fun
Our Culture Needs a Return to Biological Realism
The Unwelcome Return of Sentimental Socialism
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Christopher J. Scalia
Rock Stars Finding Their Religion
Naipaul’s Nobel
My ‘Buddy’ System: The Nickname I Vowed Never to Call My Sons
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Daniel Foster
The Editors
Rosés Are Red, Ballots Are Blue
The Rise of the Rosé States
For My Friends, Tariffs; For My Enemies, GPUs
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Richard Brookhiser
Mask Off
Out for a Penny
Credit Where Credit Is Due
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James Lileks
It’s All Elon’s Fault
Be Ready-ish
We’re Doomed
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Daniel J. Flynn
Combat Took on America’s Socialism Fever
Tuesdays Gone
The Enduring Relevance of Ideas Have Consequences
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Rich Lowry
Rich Lowry
Why Did JD Vance Post?
Thank You, Specialist Thomas Iglesias
A Trump-Vance Fissure
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Ramesh Ponnuru
False Choices for the Right
2028 Isn’t Over
How This Administration Talks About Itself
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Charles C. W. Cooke
The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast
The Logic-less Crusade That Just Killed a Data Center
The Democrats Are Coming
On the Strange and Tragic Accident at Six Flags Over Georgia
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Brian T. Allen
Hound Dogs, Driftwood, High Art Ninjas, and Is That a Corkscrew on Steroids?
Richard Avedon, Fashion Guru, Does Old Age
Lest We Forget the Great War
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Jim Geraghty
The Editors
Vice President JD Vance’s Cloudy Future
Greta Thunberg’s Next Big Thing
Yes, Russia Has Paid a Gargantuan Sum in Blood and Treasure
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Andrew C. McCarthy
The McCarthy Report
How Is El-Sayed So in Sync with the Muslim Brotherhood?
Did Payments by Huang’s Nvidia Influence Trump’s Policy on Chip Exports to China?
Hegseth Survives . . . for Now
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Philip Klein
The Editors
Why Policy Will Make a Comeback in 2028
The Case for JD Vance to Wait Keeps Getting Stronger
Midterm Massacre Reveals the Drawbacks of Unilateral Executive Actions
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Michael Brendan Dougherty
The Editors
Ratifying Reality
In Trying to Please Everyone
AI Will Dehumanize the Job Hunt
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Dan McLaughlin
Read My Lips: Tax Hikes Kill Trust in Republicans
Of Course Vance Can’t Execute an Iran Policy He Publicly Scorns
Richard Posner: The Judge as Economist
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Noah Rothman
The Editors
The Many Forces Pulling at the Democratic Agenda
Chris Van Hollen’s Leadership Bid Is a Proxy Fight over Israel
The Censors Come for Michel Houellebecq
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Andrew Stuttaford
Mercedes Bends (Again)
Data Center News . . . and Views
China Wins (Twice?)
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Jeffrey Blehar
Political Beats
The Last Person Whose Opinion on Trump We Need Right Now
Jim Jordan Finally Wins the GOP Leadership Spot — of an Attenuated Party
Massie’s Vanity Impeachment Makes Hegseth’s Exit Less Likely
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Elliot Kaufman

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Editorship and the Art of Writing

Editorship and the Art of Writing

Stand for the Immigrant

America the White?

California Imam Blames The Jews…For ISIS

A New School Choice Program for Illinois

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Caroline Downey

John R. Puri

Kathryn Jean Lopez

Joshua S. Treviño

Inez Feltscher Stepman

Christine Rosen

Christopher J. Scalia

Daniel Foster

Richard Brookhiser

James Lileks

Daniel J. Flynn

Rich Lowry

Ramesh Ponnuru

Charles C. W. Cooke

Brian T. Allen

Jim Geraghty

Andrew C. McCarthy

Philip Klein

Michael Brendan Dougherty

Dan McLaughlin

Noah Rothman

Andrew Stuttaford

Jeffrey Blehar