Election

The New Party of the Rich

Democrats are increasingly becoming the party of the rich in the country’s richest urban and suburban areas. Continue Reading »

8 Nov 2019

Challenges Ahead for Poland’s Conservatives

by Ben Sixsmith

Poland’s victorious Law and Justice party will face significant challenges over the next few years of its rule. Continue Reading »

22 Oct 2019

Proportional representation used to be blamed for the collapse of the Weimar Republic: Too much fragmentation crippled effective majority government. Israel adopted proportional representation in 1948, but in order to avoid what happened in Germany, the Israelis set a 1 percent threshold for a party . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2019

Why Australia’s Conservatives Won

by Samuel Gregg

The Australian election reflects wider realignments throughout the West. Continue Reading »

20 May 2019

Ideas Still Have Consequences

by John M. Howting

Cultural traditions are more important to man than GDP. They give him a sense of the transcendent, affirm his place in a hierarchy, and create a sense of “we” and “us.” Continue Reading »

6 Dec 2018

The Rich Turn to the Democrats

by Darel E. Paul

The Democratic Party now overwhelmingly represents America’s rich. Continue Reading »

15 Nov 2018

The Midterms and the “We” Questions

by R. R. Reno

Trump is making us address the most important question in any democratic polity: Who are we? Continue Reading »

7 Nov 2018

Culture is Downstream of Politics

by Maggie Gallagher and Frank Cannon

Walk into any room full of Christian conservative donors, and someone will say, “Politics is downstream of culture.” Every head in the room will nod. Nothing is more entrenched as conventional wisdom among Christian conservatives. Like most truisms, this one is only partly true. As people change . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2017

Read Their Lips

by John Johnson Jr.

There has been a lot of teeth-gnashing over the many extreme, and extremely silly, things being said on the campaign trail this year. Few observers of this carnival of bad behavior have bothered to probe very deeply how we got here, however, and why Trump supporters, in particular, have not been . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2016

Election 2016

by R. R. Reno

It’s a full-throated endorsement of Donald Trump’s candidacy. Written with pungency, “The Flight 93 Election” was published on the Claremont Review of Books website under the name Publius Decius Mus, a fourth-century b.c. Roman consul whose heroic self-sacrifice in battle saved the day for . . . . Continue Reading »