Zohran Mamdani, as mayor of New York City, is not really a key actor in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

It’s a reminder that while Donald Trump and Rubio have substantively fumbled when it comes to defending the West and Western ...

Hence the slightly bizarre spectacle of conservative pundits Jonathan Keeperman and Christopher Rufo doing a podcast on what ...

The great political philosopher John Rawls had a concept that he called reflective equilibrium. The idea is you start with a ...

Republicans have more cash than Democrats, and they’re burning it faster — from a Kansas rescue mission to a Maine ad that ...

Friday discussion post Have you read Matt’s column in the New York Times today?

My basic thesis in this ongoing series about liberalism (see part one on what I mean by that word, and part two on the bogus argument that liberalism fails to provide meaning in people’s lives) is ...

The iconic line “Call me Ishmael” should be spoken dialogue, not voiceover. It should be the narrator trying to make ...

That paradox explains the fair’s generosity. Absolutely nothing there is serious, so nothing, and no one, can be mocked, and people are free to be sincere. Belonging is usually gated by time, ...

I put economics first on my manifesto, because it’s substantively the most important point. But item number two about public order is, I think, the most important politically. Somewhere on the road ...