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Michael Brendan DoughertyNational Review |
In the endless to and fro about causes of electoral disaster in which the polling experts agree that the war made a normal defeat into a disaster, and...
What was the difference between a regular or even serious midterm defeat and the disaster we saw? It was the war. I don't even think this is...
In his defense of the argument that Republican travails are entirely about the war in Iran (and, for that matter, only about the war and not about its...
Mark, Dan, and Tanner Nau all take issue with my post pointing to the war in Iran as the most consequential factor driving down Republican fortunes in...
As the acrimony over Republican losses sorts itself out, there's going to be a pretense that the battle of ideas can be settled easily and...
Much of the commentary in the day after a major change election ages poorly. Values Voters could make an impression in 2004, but nobody was talking...
Twenty years ago, Donald Rumsfeld was defenestrated from the Bush administration after the midterm elections. I remember well because I was working...
Ron DeSantis is almost certainly right here. Florida is one of the only red states that did not see a wipeout for Republicans: 🚨 JUST NOW: Gov. Ron...
Defeat has a thousand fathers. So Trump's character, the corruption in Washington, the graft, the social media posts, the on-again off-again...
The New York congressional race between Republican Mike Lawler and Cait Conley is one of the hottest in the nation. Nearly $60 million has been spent...
Seinfeld‘s 1998 finale was watched by 76 million people, and we’re still talking about it, if the trends on X are any indication. A List of...
Almost as if I spoke it into being, the New York Times reports on the fact that AI-powered research into existing software is quickly uncovering...
Some commenters object to my breezy dismissal of AI doomerist views, the (insane, in my opinion) predictions of 10 percent human extinction or 100...
I’ve become strangely fascinated with the amount of people in my life who at some point in the last two decades started thinking about artificial...
Last week, many media outlets stirred up a panic about AI and cybersecurity. And the implication of the headlines was the exact opposite of the...
Even in longer essays, it is impossible to consider every important angle, and I wanted to just add a little addendum to the essay I wrote for the New...
I used to wonder if some of the modern ranked-choice vote systems might be improvements on what we have in America. I thought that in multi-candidate...
One of the reasons my sort of conservative has been anxious about the post–Cold War world trading order is that it seemed to be based on a...
Was Roger Scruton an idiot? I often see traditional conservatives derided as total ignoramuses because they don’t think in slogans, which is sad....
The mood heading into the midterms is pretty dour or gleeful, depending on your disposition. Some on the right, feeling unjustly pushed aside, seem...
The G.O.P. will not always be focused around the strong personality and charisma of Trump.
Professor Don Boudreaux of George Mason seems offended that I mentioned Hayek while pointing out that a free-trade advocate wrongly assumed that costs...
Sometimes, I feel I'm put in the strange position of defending markets from free traders. That seems to be happening in this ongoing debate with...
Rereading a book of Roger Scruton’s — called simply Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition — I came across this definition which is...
John Puri notes the New York Fed study showing that tariffs have contributed to a rise in prices and says that is the point of tariffs. It is true...
The Trump-fluent stand-up comedian Shane Gillis hosted Saturday Night Live for the third time last weekend. He's become something of a comedy...
There's been a great deal of premature talk this year that national populism as a global political force is dying. The electoral whipping...
Every few years, there is a moral panic about nuns or other religious orders. The government of Ireland is now digging up the graves of children in...
Dan Foster takes the vice president to task for saying he is trying to “undo 40 years of globalization.” Foster retorts, what would that mean? So...
I had a solemn occasion to visit Gate of Heaven cemetery in Hawthorne, N.Y., this week. It's one of the most beautiful cemeteries I've ever...
Bill Gates has now had a chance to sound off on AI technology. He is a semi-doomer. He believes that AI will produce abundance but that the transition...
Almost a decade ago, I had a strange premonition about Notre-Dame de Paris. I had gotten a solicitation from a fundraising campaign targeted at...
Finally, Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired the U.S. distribution rights for De Gaulle, the two-part film series dramatizing the French general’s...
Having read Julian Jackson’s absolutely astonishing biography of Charles de Gaulle, I was excited to know that two feature-length films based on the...
Daniel McCarthy has written a provocative column in the new issue of The Spectator, arguing that libertarianism has "disappeared" from our...
It now seems like every week there is a big controversy in Ireland related to the Palestinian cause. Ed Sheeran got into hot water with the Irish...
Oren Cass has a very smart essay on how to respond to the AI doom scenarios with what we’ve learned from the environmental catastrophists: The...
When Trump was reelected, there was a lot of talk about “the vibe shift.” It was basically a phrase meaning the end of the woke era and the start...
The magazine and newspaper industry was chomped to pieces by the internet and chewed up in the great financial crisis. The survivors of the larger...
In his U.S. House race, former Maine Governor Paul LePage throws a little French into a campaign ad. It might be the first time we’ve seen French...
I've found the two-week freak-out about AI unenlightening for the most part. The vast majority of the people prophesying imminent doom know very...
David Sacks, the influential investor and technologist who was until recently Donald Trump's AI and crypto czar, has emphasized that the...
I recommend this very sweet piece in the Wall Street Journal about one father’s attempt to teach the knuckleball. While my son Ben worked hard on...
Dan Hitchens at First Things has penned a remarkable reported essay on Roger Scruton’s life and formation. Don Jr. Will Regret It Russia’s...
Obviously the world of politics has been colonized by the debates about AI because the leading AI companies have C-suites that have shifted from...
Again, I recommend that people who are being made fearful by employees of the leading AI labs, Anthropic and OpenAI, should read Cal Newport. There is...
Can we cabin AI to prevent it from killing us by excluding it from sensitive systems like nuclear weapons, the grid, or wet labs? Ramesh asks. I think...
It’s a bit of a dog-bites-man story, but the Wall Street Journal has a piece about the push in warehouses to bring more robots in. “Labor costs...
I really appreciate Jonah Goldberg's response to my column today on the many Ronald Reagans and many JD Vances that people love and hate in turn....
Another AI company employee, this time from Anthropic, has publicly announced a career change along with the conviction that the frontier model AI...
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