Crisis of the Old Order
The recent Supreme Court decision on gay marriage deeply disappointed conservatives and underscored how rapidly the cultural landscape has been changing. What was considered a fringe movement just 30 years ...
Labor without Romance
In 2012, Wisconsin’s Republican governor, Scott Walker, was forced into a recall election after less than two years in office. The reason: his plan to restrict collective-bargaining rights for public-sector ...
A Vanished Breed
‘Republican in name only,” “country-club Republican,” “establishment Republican”: These are the terms grassroots conservatives use to attack their moderate Republican opponents, whom they consider “squishes” and elitists — people who ...
Domestic Strife
Watching the ever-amusing drama of Joe Biden playing the role of vice president is a reminder of the complicated and often uneasy relationship between vice presidents and their presidents. The ...
Two Visions of the Electorate
What happened with this election? Many conservatives predicted that Romney would win the election, with some even predicting a landslide. Many liberals were equally confident that Obama would win, even ...
Cronies, Clients, and Corruption
‘It wasn’t supposed to be like this.” So begins Spoiled Rotten, Jay Cost’s new history of the Democratic party. Cost is referring to the presidency of Barack Obama, who was ...
The Way the GOP Was
Those following the current Republican presidential primary campaign would find GOP presidential politics of the 1940s and 1950s odd, to say the least. As Michael Bowen shows in this new ...
The ‘Military-Industrial Complex’ at 50
Fifty years ago today, Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his farewell address to the nation. With the exception of George Washington’s speech, most presidential farewell addresses have been unmemorable affairs. ...
The Prize Fighter
‘It’s important to have enemies, because everything depends on the kind of enemies you have,” Norman Podhoretz once told Cynthia Ozick. It is the kind of quote you would expect ...
The Sins of Moses
Walk around the streets of New York City today, and you will experience one of the great American success stories of the last quarter century. New York, like much of ...