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Silicon Valley harassment of conservatives is only the beginning of the illiberal left’s march through corporate bureaucracies.   Conservatives cannot afford to do nothing, because inaction will lead to...

Ross Douthat is right to say that the decline of the Oscars was overdetermined—but the rapidity, extent, and shamefulness of that decline was a matter of choice. Hollywood, like...

The annual Conservative Political Action Conference was stimulating. Some writers took the opportunity to chart the decline of CPAC from the days of Ronald Reagan to the present of...

Books could be (and have been) written on the theme of Donald Trump as immoral and demagogic. Since his election, many have wondered how Americans could have lowered their...

Indignant anti-Trump liberals are both bold and scared. On the one hand, they make exaggerated and unpopular demands. On the other, they know that liberal extremism is leaving them...

John Maynard Keynes once wrote, “Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.” That quote dates...

Imagine you are an American in your twenties. You might have a bit of college, but you have no bachelor’s degree and are unlikely to get one any time...

The pretty, decent Republicans lose. The people who look and act the way we hope for our children lose. Somehow, we ended up with a game show host who...

Each of our parties is acting crazy, thanks to its own elites. The Republicans are acting crazy thanks to the narcissism and entitlement of the right-leaning business and professional...

Both of our parties are acting crazy. The Republicans insist on economic policies that are not favored by the general public, nor even by their own voters. The Democrats...

Jay Cost is right to say that America needs stronger political parties. He is wrong to suggest that our existing parties should have done more to block outsiders like...

We are trapped in a terrible loop. The arrogance, insularity, and solidarity of the elites empowers charlatans and fools. The elites then use the provocations of the populists as...

The best politicians on the right have wasted the years since Mitt Romney’s 2012 defeat. They have chosen to learn nothing of value from their losses, and they have...

David Brooks thinks that Sam Francis was the prophet of modern right-wing populism. My sense is that Brooks is missing the bigger story. The most important cause of today’s...

There are some voters politicians don’t understand, and there are some voters politicians don’t want. In a rather amazing interview, Hillary Clinton basically admitted that she neither understood, nor...