Peter Singer Criticizes Pope Leo’s Encyclical for Embracing Human Exceptionalism Russia Is Losing Its War, and Congress Should Help Finish the Job The Mainechurian Candidate The Associated Press Asks: ...

From the latest Patrick Deneen essay: Consider the positions that the mainstream of American conservatism spends a great deal of its time and treasure defending today: Each of these positions was a ...

Argument for a ‘red Caesar’ to rule US may seem esoteric but conservative thinktank behind idea has connections to Trump In June, the rightwing academic Kevin Slack published a book-length polemic ...

Healy’s dissection of the delusions of “redemption through presidential politics” comes at a moment when liberals, for reasons of liberalism, and conservatives, because they have forgotten their ...

Since Donald Trump’s ascent nearly a decade ago, political discourse has thrummed with warnings of approaching American fascism. The talk has only grown louder since the former president’s attempted ...

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The Caesarism the American Right dreams of is neo-fascism. What they’re after, of course, is not a real Caesar—this is nostalgia for a Rome that never existed, a mythical Constantine at best. What ...

The following excerpt is from the virtual book Republic to Principate: The Decline and Fall of Representative Democracy in America, published in the year 2052 A.D. But the biggest casualty of the ...

According to polls, local government is the most popular form of government in America. A 2013 Pew survey found that 63 percent of Americans view their local government “favorably,” while only 28 ...

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