A few years ago, seeking to understand Donald Trump’s remarkable triumph, I wrote a short article examining his Machiavellian virtues as a political leader. Now, in…

The events of recent weeks have thrust George Orwell to the forefront of America’s consciousness. Conservatives have warned of the allegedly “Orwellian” character of efforts to “cancel” Donald Trump and Josh…

Samuel Gregg admonishes us that Hamilton was really “a different kind of nationalist from those that claim this mantle in our time.” While we yield to no one in our…

Last year, Christian conservatives had serious reservations about Donald Trump. I was among them. But many of us voted for him anyway. For most, the calculation was straightforward. The…

On Plato’s answer to the Trump question. To the many paradoxes surrounding the improbable political career of Donald Trump, we may add the following: we can only understand Trump, the…