Conspiracy theorists and far-right fanatics have long been present in the GOP. Now, theyāre running it.
Jacob Heilbrunn
Jacob Heilbrunn is editor of the National Interest and a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.
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Trumpism Before Trump
How a small group of reactionaries hijacked the Republican Partyādecades before the 2016 election.
Posted inBooks, July/August 2021, Magazine
What Tucker Carlson Learned from a Liberal Columnist
The fearsome mid-century journalist Drew Pearson often scooped the Washington press corps, but his worst reporting strategies have been adopted by the right.
Posted inBooks, January/February/March 2021, Magazine, Main
The Flawed Superhero of Marvel Comics
A new book reveals the origin story of Stan Lee, the self-aggrandizing impresario of an entertainment empire.
Posted inApril/May/June 2020, Books, Magazine
Does the Never Trump Movement Matter?
Most conservatives eventually embraced Trump. Hereās why a few didnāt.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, November/December 2018
Neocons Paved the Way for Trump. Finally, One Admits It.
Max Boot charts his journey through—and out of—the conservative intellectual movement.
Posted inBooks, January/February 2017, Magazine
The Birth of the Imperial Presidency
How Americaās late-nineteenth-century conquest of Cuba and the Philippines still haunts our foreign policy.
Posted inBooks, January/February 2016, Magazine, Politics
The Real Reagan
The Gipper’s actual record diverges significantly from the posthumous conservative mythology about him.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, September/October 2014
A Tale of Two Zionists
The terms of the contemporary divide over Israel’s identity were laid out nearly a century ago by two fiery journalists, Vladimir Jabotinsky and Abraham Cahan.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, September/October 2013
Brothers in Armchairs
For Allen and John Foster Dulles, regime change was an extension of the family business.
