Commentary Three years ago, in the depths of lockdowns, it became obvious that we desperately needed a new citizen movement with a different focus. Prevailing ideological forms were simply not adapted to the enormous exogenous shock to the system that lockdowns implied. It was unexpected, especially under the guise of public health. Every essential freedom…
After COVID: Twelve Challenges for a Shattered World
May 23, 2023
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Bill Barr Is at Fault in the Unresolved Election of 2020
Commentary In the aftermath of this month’s CNN town hall event with former President Donald Trump—largely viewed, even by the beleaguered network, as a fiasco—it may be time to again examine whether the 2020 presidential election was legitimate. Why? Haven’t we had enough of this? Well, yes, I understand. Time to move on and all…
West Virginia AG Morrisey Takes on the Woke and the Swamp
Commentary As attorney general of West Virginia, Patrick Morrisey has been a scourge of the administrative state, combatting what he perceives to be federal government overreach into the life and commerce of the Mountaineer State. On April 4, Morrisey announced that he is joining a crowded field seeking the Republican nomination in West Virginia’s 2024 gubernatorial race….
The 4-Point Game Plan for a Conservative President to Dismantle the Deep State That Undermined Trump
Commentary FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A coalition of conservative leaders and former political appointees has compiled a game plan for the next conservative president to restructure the federal government’s bureaucracy to make it more cost effective, high-performing, and accountable to the people. “The great challenge confronting a conservative president is the existential need for aggressive…
The Surveillance State Is on the March
Commentary As a working principle, the conviction that things are always worse than they seem is hard to beat. Along with the observation from William Dean Howells that the problem for a critic isn’t making enemies but keeping them, that mournful conviction that things are worse than they seem has the twin clarifying advantage of…
NTD Good Morning (Mar. 22): Trump’s Plans to Take Down the ‘Deep State’; White House on Chinese Regime’s Peace Plans for Ukraine
Former President Trump unveils his plan to dismantle what he calls the ‘Deep State’. And demonstrators both for and against Trump’s potential arrest voice their opinions. Chinese regime leader Xi Jinping wraps up his Moscow visit. And the White House weighs in on the CCP’s peace plans for Russia and Ukraine. We’re hours away from…
Why Republicans Seem So Marginalized in Washington
March 2, 2023
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Commentary Last year, we were treated to astonishing hearings on the Jan. 6, 2021 protests on Capitol Hill. The Democrats running the show portrayed an insurrection, sedition, and even an attempted coup d’état. The theater was selective and manipulative but it was very effective and implausibly so. It made it impossible to publicly suggest that…
What If Federal Workers Never Showed Up for Work and No One Missed Them?
Commentary This is one of the greatest federal government scandals of all time. Many hundreds of thousands of federal employees have been getting a full-time paycheck from Uncle Sam (meaning from all of us) without showing up for work for three years now. They don’t call it Club Fed for nothing. To be fair, just…
The Twitter Files Reveal an Existential Threat
February 9, 2023
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Commentary The following is adapted from a talk delivered at Hillsdale College on Feb. 7, 2023. Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter last October and the subsequent reporting on the Twitter Files by journalists Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, and a handful of others beginning in early December is one of the most important news stories of…
Liberalism as We Knew It Is Extinct
February 9, 2023
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Commentary There were two simultaneous hearings yesterday in the House now ruled by Republicans. The first concerned Big Tech censorship and featured Twitter ex-employees being grilled on their role in controlling the public mind in ways that were politically biased. It was mostly boring of course but I was struck by how many times the…
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