Matt Purple

The worldwide working-class counterrevolution

1 August 2022 12:49 pm

Something is happening across the world right now, something that deserves more attention than it’s getting. First, to the Netherlands,…

The Donald Trump Show’s biggest plot twist yet

30 June 2022 3:19 am

Since it debuted in 2016, The Donald Trump Show — the televised meta-commentary from hell we’ve all been living in…

A pro-life revolution

25 June 2022 2:26 am

Set aside your opinions about abortion for a moment. Throw down the fluttering placards about “THE PRO-LIFE GENERATION” and “KEEP…

Mike Pence and the clash of the GOP titans

22 June 2022 12:42 pm

Mike Pence began his political career as “Rush Limbaugh on decaf,” a calmer and more collegial kind of conservative radio…

Joe Biden’s greatest hits tour

10 June 2022 12:33 pm

Joe Biden would never be in a hair band; a hair plugs band, maybe. Yet the president does seem to…

Welcome to the age of post-Covid nihilism

8 June 2022 8:59 pm

Washington, DC Amid the recent orgy of violence across America, it was the carjackings that finally got me. Lost amid all…

It’s only a culture war when the right does it

19 May 2022 12:23 pm

Having recently botched South African history, the New York Times is now turning its sights to Australia. Our friends Down…

What’s so ‘progressive’ about abortion?

10 May 2022 12:23 pm

From the UK Spectator this week comes a pair of essays by Douglas Murray and Melanie McDonagh praising the American abortion…

The Real Housecucks of Ohio

4 May 2022 11:42 pm

After eight months that felt like eighty years, the Ohio Republican Senate primary has at last come to a close.…

Pelosi fights, McCarthy flails

25 April 2022 11:57 am

Recently, money was extracted from the taxpayers at gunpoint to create a PBS puff piece about Nancy Pelosi. Called “Pelosi’s…

One nation under the CDC

22 April 2022 12:55 pm

For a brief moment, America was the cheering mission control room in every action movie. You know the one: the…

Elon Musk and tweeting on a volcano

19 April 2022 12:29 pm

Of all the hilarious freakouts over Elon Musk’s bid to buy Twitter, my personal favorite comes from journalism professor and…

It’s still Obama’s White House

7 April 2022 12:38 pm

Barack Obama returned to the White House this week, and his presence was a straight up blast from the past.…

Biden’s war: does he know what he’s doing?

2 April 2022 9:00 am

Is Biden’s approach to the war more calculating than it seems?

Old man yells at gas prices

23 March 2022 1:15 pm

President Joe Biden has lashed out at fossil fuel companies, accusing them of using high gas prices to “pad their…

When the establishment cries treason

16 March 2022 2:08 pm

Last week, former Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard released a video calling for a ceasefire in areas around American-funded biolabs in…

Ukraine couldn’t save Biden’s State of the Union

2 March 2022 5:30 pm

‘We oppose authoritarianism!’ our pundits all cry, before tuning in to watch the American president thunder like a god in…

Man flu is real

21 February 2022 7:28 am

Over New Year’s, I came down with the Omicron. Or as I put it to my wife, civilization as I…

The left’s Nicene Creed

15 February 2022 3:02 pm

I live in a blue city in a blue state, meaning I can’t so much as walk to the CVS…

A working-class liberty movement

10 February 2022 2:47 pm

We begin today in the Canadian Parliament, which has its own version of prime minister’s questions. And while it isn’t…

Glenn Youngkin’s brass-knuckled conservatism

7 February 2022 2:06 pm

How is the mood in Virginia these days? It appears to be a bit litigious. Last month, seven school boards…

Get ready for a brutal Supreme Court fight

27 January 2022 5:42 am

During the recent Supreme Court arguments in the school choice case Carson v. Makin (full disclosure: my wife does paralegal work…

Joe Biden daydreams about civil rights

19 January 2022 2:34 pm

What a civil rights legend is Joseph R. Biden. You can almost picture it if you daydream hard enough: the…

The meritocrat and the aristocrat

14 January 2022 2:48 pm

What a pair are Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew — like peanut butter and petroleum jelly, like pepper and road…

The coming war with…um…Canada?

12 January 2022 12:58 am

We begin today by heading north, past Vermont, over Winterfell, above the Arctic Circle, beyond the part of the map…