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The West's Long-Lasting Enemies Cannot Be Cajoled Aug. 05, 2022

Michael Barone

Revisionist powers, nations whose leaders seek to undermine American leadership in the world, seem t... Read More

Sorry, Progressives, But America Isn't Intersectional Jul. 29, 2022

Michael Barone

America isn't intersectional. That's something the left-wingers who call themselves progressives hav... Read More

Sure, Ron DeSantis Could Beat Donald Trump in 2024 Jul. 22, 2022

Michael Barone

How inevitable is a third consecutive nomination of Donald Trump? Partisan commentators, when it sui... Read More

James Madison, 21st Century Pundit Jul. 15, 2022

Michael Barone

Could America's Founding Fathers see far, some 234 years, into the future? In declaring independence... Read More

Who's Behind Joe Biden's Leftward Lunge? Jul. 08, 2022

Michael Barone

What's going on with Joe Biden? Why is a president who ran and was elected as a centrist Democrat su... Read More

United States of Diversity: The Founders and Dobbs Jul. 01, 2022

Michael Barone

DEI — "diversity, equity and inclusion." University administrators, corporate human resources ... Read More

Can Government Build Things Again? Jun. 24, 2022

Michael Barone

Give the New York Times's Ezra Klein credit for identifying a problem with big government institutio... Read More

The Secular Right Versus the Woke Left Jun. 17, 2022

Michael Barone

This month, I've come across two outstanding articles by writers I had not previously known on impor... Read More

Politics as the Leisure of the Theory Class Jun. 03, 2022

Michael Barone

Politics has increasingly become, for many Americans, the leisure of the theory class. That's a phra... Read More

It's Not Exactly Trump's Republican Party May. 20, 2022

Michael Barone

Is it Donald Trump's Republican Party? You can make the case it is, as partisan Democrats do, from t... Read More

Progressives' Version of 'Democracy': 2 Plus 2 Equals 5 May. 13, 2022

Michael Barone

They may or may not have been playing the song "The World Turned Upside Down" when Lord Charles Corn... Read More

Redistricting Proved To Be Much Ado About Not Very Much May. 06, 2022

Michael Barone

The congressional redistricting wars are mostly over. Much of the hoopla surrounding it is proving o... Read More

People Are Fleeing the Self-harm Progressives Inflicted on Their Own Cities Apr. 29, 2022

Michael Barone

In recent weeks, I've noted how, as COVID-19 mask mandates fall by the wayside, the nation has been ... Read More

The Yankee Reform Impulse Gets Some Issues Right, Some Wrong Apr. 22, 2022

Michael Barone

People talk about culture war politics as if it were a recent development — a novelty, an exce... Read More

Turning a Corner, Away from Excessive Risk Aversion Apr. 01, 2022

Michael Barone

It feels like we're turning a corner. Since the beginning of the calendar year, a lot of things have... Read More

Another Party Hack President Mar. 25, 2022

Michael Barone

"The language people speak in the corridors of power is not economics or politics. It is history." S... Read More

Ukraine Suggests Dangers of the Eurasian Heartland Axis Mar. 18, 2022

Michael Barone

"Who rules the Heartland rules the World Island. Who rules the World Island commands the world." So ... Read More

Ukraine Shows We Live in a Nationalist World Mar. 11, 2022

Michael Barone

It turns out that we live in a nationalist world. That's one of the lessons people are learning from... Read More

Volodymyr Zelensky Transforms Germany -- and Europe Mar. 04, 2022

Michael Barone

It's been a week since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and Kyiv, and even Kharkiv, 20 miles from th... Read More

Must Government Be a 'Big, Waddling, Sluggish Beast'? Feb. 18, 2022

Michael Barone

Itinerant policy journalist Ezra Klein, now with the New York Times, has highlighted something inter... Read More