The theater of Washington
Suddenly it’s Ibsen season in Washington, DC. It’s true that only Shakespeare’s plays are performed worldwide more often than Henrik…
Trump is being misled on Venezuela
President Trump is being misled into a regime-change war close to home. Few Americans nowadays find much to celebrate in…
Trump should beware of backing regime change in Venezuela
Few Americans find much to celebrate in the Iraq War or the intervention in Libya. Regimes were successfully changed, but…
No, Trump has not changed course on Ukraine
President Trump has once again played the global foreign-policy commentariat for fools. They have taken a startling statement from Trump’s…
The blurred lines between politics and common morality
Some 238 years ago Thomas Jefferson wrote that “the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with…
After Charlie Kirk, Trump should crack down on campus ‘safetyism’
An assassin who wants to silence a debate in America’s colleges can’t do it just by killing Charlie Kirk. Although…
Donald Trump has bent reality to his will for 200 days
Donald Trump remains the master of political reality 200 days into his second term. His administration drives the headlines, not…
The lessons of Ron Paul
As Elon Musk feuds with Donald Trump and looks to launch a political party of his own – the America…
Trump won’t be dragged into a regime-change war
The handsome pages of The Spectator World’s July issue readers will find an essay of mine arguing that the United States…
The un-American revolution
The riots raging in Los Angeles are an unwelcome present ahead of America’s birthday, which is less than a month…
All hail Sheikh Trump, the peaceful
President Trump is an America Firster, but he has an undeniable affinity for the Arab world. He would have made…
Will a new era of tariffs really stop China’s rise?
If free trade and globalization enabled Communist China to become a superpower, will a new era of tariffs and trade…
The Democratic war machine
To understand what’s wrong with the American left and the Democratic party – two different but entwined things, to be…
The grandeur of Trump’s tariffs
The first thing revealed by the high and wide-ranging new tariffs President Trump announced on “Liberation Day” is just how…
How Trump is revolutionizing Washington
Weeks into his second term, it’s clear President Trump intends to be the most transformative force our politics has seen…
The Democrats need a new rulebook
Donald Trump’s triumphal return to the White House is the end of more than just the Joe Biden era. Since…
How a Latino wave carried Trump to victory
Donald Trump’s victory this time may not be the surprise that his 2016 win was, but for his critics it’s…
A ripple, not a wave, will decide the US election
What can the 2020 and 2016 elections, the previous votes in which Donald Trump was the Republican nominee, tell us…
Vibes don’t matter. Donald Trump is still the underdog
Hillary Clinton has a simple but bitter lesson to teach Donald Trump’s supporters in 2024: the best way to lose…
The pro-life problem
The pro-life movement has reason to be grateful to Donald Trump, even as it has reason to feel exasperated as…
What is war good for in the twenty-first century?
What exactly is war good for in the twenty-first century? The US should have asked itself this before embarking on…
Biden’s base rebels over Gaza
Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is a multifront war. Unfortunately for him, the youngest soldiers in his coalition would rather fight…
Lessons from costly wars past
Money is often a substitute for strategy in US foreign policy. We spent $2 trillion in Afghanistan, only to lose…
Donald Trump and the clash of realities
As Donald Trump marches to the Republican nomination a third time, Americans are divided into two radically opposed camps. On…
The future looks Republican
In presidential elections there’s no such thing as a Pyrrhic victory. Winning is everything — and neither party would ever…
