Ben Domenech

We can blame Mitch McConnell, too

15 November 2022 12:52 am

So now it’s time to figure out who to blame. The post-election spin from the world of Mitch McConnell is…

The time to move on from boomer Republicanism is now

12 November 2022 6:03 am

Having been saddled by everyone involved with the largest portion of blame for Tuesday’s election disappointment, Donald Trump’s descent into…

Why the red wave never crested

9 November 2022 7:15 pm

The 2022 midterm election was supposed to be a red wave. Instead, it turned out to be a night of…

Why Trump jumping in early would be a mistake

8 November 2022 6:15 am

Donald Trump is expected to announce that he is running for president again next week on November 14, according to…

Will this election finally be the end of Betoism?

7 November 2022 12:00 am

Democrats across the country should be grateful for what Republicans are about to do: rid them of a nagging disease…

Kitchen tables versus kitchen tablets: the real election divide

4 November 2022 3:37 am

It’s useful to think of this election as a contrast between how, in the simplest understanding, people see the world…

Pat Buchanan and thirty years of culture wars

29 October 2022 1:51 pm

It was a relatively cool 85 degrees in Houston on the August evening thirty years ago when Republicans gathered at the…

Letting John Fetterman debate was political malpractice

26 October 2022 1:36 pm

Like the proprietors of a gimp show at a carnival, Pennsylvania Democrats apparently get off on making the average viewer…

Evan McMullin is the candidate from the deep state

26 October 2022 1:43 am

Many Republican observers of the Utah Senate race have noted Evan McMullin’s obviously false claims at anything approaching ideological conservatism.…

Will the Nury Martinez fallout break Los Angeles politics?

18 October 2022 1:34 am

The resignation of Nury Martinez, the first Latina president of the Los Angeles City Council, is a dramatic development that…

The Raphael Warnock debate gaffe the media missed

17 October 2022 2:21 am

Herschel Walker’s performance in Friday night’s Georgia Senate debate provided a good example of the benefits of lowered expectations and…

Shane Gillis is going places

29 August 2022 1:02 pm

It is a hot summer night at the truck warehouse that is home to Magooby’s Joke House, and 2014’s Baltimore…

Mitch McConnell isn’t going anywhere

23 August 2022 12:00 am

Just a few months ago, Blake Masters was strongly criticizing Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, expressing hopes, as other conservative candidates…

NATO vote shows conservatives are getting it right

4 August 2022 11:30 pm

Yesterday’s 95-1 vote in the Senate to support the admission of Finland and Sweden to NATO is another in a…

Dobbs has changed America forever

25 July 2022 12:13 pm

For nearly half a century, American politics has been defined according to the strictures of a single Supreme Court decision:…

Why expanding NATO is an America First idea

20 July 2022 11:18 pm

There is an open tug-of-war going on right now over the direction of foreign policy on the right. The attempts…

The media’s Glenn Youngkin rope-a-dope

13 July 2022 12:11 pm

I regret to inform you that America’s decrepit media commentators are once again attempting to play a game of rope-a-dope…

Who will stand for free speech?

11 July 2022 12:21 pm

The primary feeling is a sense of dread. The oily scent of torches set aflame is in your nostrils, and…

The end of Roe is a victory for Conservatism, Inc.

25 June 2022 3:18 am

On a day many Americans on both sides of the abortion issue thought would never come, the Supreme Court reversed…

The Cato Institute fails to stand up to cancel culture

18 June 2022 12:55 am

The recent controversy over prominent legal commentator Ilya Shapiro’s employment at Georgetown University Law Center ended last week. In a…

The Soros-backed takeover of Spanish-language radio

11 June 2022 1:13 pm

This week brought revelations that a consortium including multiple interested leftist participants has banded together to attempt to buy a…

The man taking on the anti-free-speech left

8 June 2022 1:43 pm

For the anti-free-speech left, the most dangerous man in America today is Greg Lukianoff. The president of the Foundation for…