Benjamin Domenech is the publisher of The Federalist, host of The Federalist Radio Hour, and writes The Transom, a daily subscription newsletter for political insiders. He was previously a fellow at The Manhattan Institute and a senior fellow at The Heartland Institute; editor in chief of The City, an academic journal on faith and culture; and a speechwriter for HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson and U.S. Senator John Cornyn of Texas. He co-founded Redstate and co-hosted Coffee & Markets, an award-winning economic podcast. His writing has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Politico, Commentary, Reason, and GQ, and he appears regularly on Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, and CBS’s Face The Nation. He divides his time between Virginia and New York. Email him at [email protected]
The Speaker’s instincts have atrophied. Her political gambits have failed. She’s been a source of one very public screw up after another.
The 1620 Project is about understanding how these characteristics are essential to understanding the American founding, and how they provided the basis for so much of what makes this nation great.
The media lost their minds last night as it became apparent that this election was not turning out the way they’ve claimed it would for months, with a double-digit landslide for Joe Biden.
Joe Rogan authentically represents an informed but perpetually curious everyman better than any interlocutor in the media.
Pro sports is not engaging in woke signaling at the behest of their fans, but at the behest of the overwhelmingly leftist (and white) corporate media that covers them.
Did the salon owner make Pelosi make an appointment, or take her mask off? Of course not.
In comparing the DNC and RNC, the optics and the policy contrasts could not have been clearer. And that was even before the fireworks.
Humanity is entertained by competition of all kinds. The pandemic has shown sports fans will find a new way to cheer and chant and boo.
This is going to be the Harris Administration with Joe Biden as a figurehead, and it’s a good representation of where the Democratic Party is today.
Where Obama previously sounded notes that defended freedom of thought and the need for bipartisan unity, it now appears he has come to share the view of the loudest members of the left.
Liz Cheney didn’t get ambushed over Trump. She donated to a fellow member’s primary opponent, and people got mad.
The media has set new, ahistorical, and impossible to achieve goals that must be achieved before reopening.
Ben Domenech sat down with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Xi Jinping’s “freedom-destroying” approach to power and American business in China.
The thirst among Republican voters isn’t even for policy. It’s for seeing the politicians they elected join the fray.
In an Oval Office interview with The Federalist’s Ben Domenech, President Trump calls on Republicans to stand strong and unite against lawlessness.
We need leaders who are willing and ready to link arms with these cops and physically take part in cleaning up this mess and defying the mob.
Bolton is a thin-skinned and snarky figure who succeeded in convincing a surprising number of smart people in Washington that he is somehow serious and statesmanlike.
Events of the last week reveal a clash between the politics of revolutionary racial radicalism and defunding the police on the one hand, and law and order on the other.
You can have all the defenders at The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic you want. But it really doesn’t matter compared to the influence of the new gatekeepers.
The pandemic has thrown into question how much we depend on this entertainment as soma to keep us from asking deeper, harder questions about ourselves and how we live and die.


