Ross Douthat Foresees the Same Old ‘Same Old Same-Old’
Wasting wealth on frivolities and perversion is contemptible in a family; should we not scorn it even more strongly when an entire society does it?
Amid a Revival of Anti-Monopoly Sentiment, a New Book Traces Its History
Matt Stoller’s Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Populism charts the shifts in American attitudes toward corporate consolidation.
A Socialist Predecessor of Ocasio-Cortez in Congress
Like AOC, Vito Marcantonio divided members of Congress, leading a small coterie of far-leftists while personifying the enemy to conservatives and moderates.
The Plot against Kavanaugh
A new book details the media–Democratic collusion behind the opposition to the newest Supreme Court justice
Oregon Democrats Outsource Their Duty to Drag Republicans Back to the Legislature
They are forgetting the separation of powers.
A Conservative Case for Puerto Rican Statehood
Besides being the right thing to do, it could reawaken Americans to the necessity of our Constitution’s federalist principles.
Words Should Mean What Everyone Understands Them to Mean
In his book ‘A Debt against the Living,’ lan Wurman makes a compelling case for constitutional originalism.
When Compromise Still Reigned in U.S. Politics
Heirs of the Founders takes us to the generation after the Founding.
Blue-Collar Philly of the 1960s and ’70s: Trump Voters before Trump
Historian Timothy Lombardo looks at the rise of populist conservatives in a city run by the Democratic machine.
Decline of the Casey Democrats
Bob Casey Sr. set himself apart from the increasingly liberal Democratic party nationwide, joining strands of New Deal populism and Catholic social values.