A Note On What We Do Here
At a time much of the country is suffering as a result of terrible ideas inflicted on us by our cultural and political betters, The Federalist remains avowedly committed to offering alternative views.
When The Life Of The Mind Wars With The Life Of The Crotch
I didn’t get into the lit business to party. I’m devoted to spreading ideas, telling stories, and, most of all, to making mega-bank.
Neocons’ Siren Song Has Divorced Republicans From Their Voters
You may have never heard of Robert Kagan or Max Boot, but they are hugely influential to the people you vote for.
Today’s Global Elites Are The Reason Imperialism Is Back
In the new world disorder, empire is the ultimate safe space.
Does Our Nation Still Offer Its Youth The Chance To Succeed Through Social Capital?
David Brooks bemoaned elitism’s effect on upward mobility on Tuesday. But that isn’t the only thing keeping our society fragmented and unsuccessful.
The Media Elite Is Indulging Dangerous Fantasies About Removing Trump From Office
Ross Douthat argues in The New York Times that the cabinet and Congress should remove Trump from office. It’s a reckless argument for undermining democracy.
Fishtown Will Never Become Great Again If It Keeps Blaming Elites For Its Failures
Charles Murray’s ‘Fishtown’ has some real grievances. It also has some real social problems. Populists don’t love talking about those, unless to blame elites.
What A Divided America Can Learn From Veterans About Loving Our Neighbors
It’s my humble opinion that New Yorkers, generally among our most highly educated, paradoxically understand among the least.
Wearing Puzzle Pieces To Apologize For Your White Skin Is Anti-Science And Anti-History
At Elizabethtown College, students are donning white puzzle piece pins as a means of (virtue) signaling penitence for our time’s original sin: whiteness.
Trump’s Immigration Order Triggers Left’s Cultural Totalitarianism
Are there any things walled off from politics? Or are all things open for politics-driven social coercion and manipulation?
Why ‘Hell Or Highwater’ Is The Most American Film Of 2016
No movie better captures the cultural zeitgeist of the America that exists outside of the so-called bubbles than ‘Hell or Highwater,’ even though it’s from a Scotsman.
How Populism Can Rejuvenate American Conservatism’s Ideas
A grand merger between conservatism and populism is a logical inevitability that will boost both the movement and, more importantly, the nation.
5 Messages From Trump Country For Coastal Elites
It’s been disappointing to hear and read depictions of what life is supposedly like in the ‘Rust Belt’ and what kind of people purportedly live and work here.
Jim Webb Addresses America’s Elites, Donald Trump, And Foreign Policy In Keynote
‘How wrong are these elites, at least as it relates to the rest of the country? Look for a moment at the most glaring foreign policy failures of the past 15 years.’
‘Fantastic Beasts’ Dramatizes Our Rampant Disgust With News Media
In this movie, J.K. Rowling once again shows her disdain for a media in cahoots with the elite.
Hey ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Why Didn’t You Tell Us About The Bubble?
Democrats looking to figure out what went wrong and how to recover would actually be well-advised, for once, to take a cue from “Saturday Night Live.”
To Govern Well, The GOP Needs To Drop Identity Politics
The GOP will face the unsettling reality that they don’t have much of a mandate for pro-growth conservative policies, or indeed for any specific set of policies at all.
How Journalism Turns Into Propaganda
Real journalism is dangerous for elites, which is why we have so little of it.
Why Campaign Finance Rules Make Free Speech Expensive For The Little Guy
By using power, money, and influence to silence dissenting speech, elites go beyond honest political debate and threaten the very nature of democracy.
I Watched Donald Trump Blow A Hole Through The European Elite’s Minds
Looking out on a valley in the Schwarzwald surrounded by posh European men with pants tight enough to ensure they could never procreate, my mind embraced Donald Trump.
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