The Coronavirus and the Right’s Scientific Counterrevolution
Long and fascinating article on the pandemic and the Right. Two sections stood out to me. First, communication and expertise: The problem is not mainly that the...
Category: Politics
Trump: Dictator or Cypher, Or . . .?
The most straightforward interpretation of the available evidence is that Trump is engaged in neither a programmatic defense of any particular vision of the Con...
Does Anthropology Define American Conservatism?
If I had to pick a benevolent dictator to rule over us I think I would lean toward Yuval Levin. Levin, the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Stud...
Birzer or Azerrad: What is American Conservatism? Contrasting aesthetics
This is a big part of my unwillingness to join with so many on the right these days. This is populist reaction and counter-revolutionary rhetoric not conservat...
Michael Brendan Dougherty on the sad cult of esoteric Trumpism
Those who have clung to a stubborn faith in Trump look set to soon find that he has abandoned them in a world he hardly changed — a world said faith has led the...