Sexist, violent, and a brazen self-promoter, the midcentury giant of the American novel is no longer in style, but he still has a lot to teach us.
Pat Buchanan
Posted inMagazine
Trumpism Before Trump
How a small group of reactionaries hijacked the Republican Party—decades before the 2016 election.
Posted inPolitics
Andrew Yang’s Road Not Taken
If the puckish former presidential candidate wants to own the libs or stay semi-famous, there was a better way to go.
Posted inPolitical Animal
The Crocodile Tears of Neoconservatives
They are feeling uprooted from the GOP in the face of white nationalism, but their moral failures opened the door for Trump’s takeover.
Posted inPolitical Animal
The Real Crisis Is Not Happening on Our Southern Border
What it means to be white in America is taking center stage.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Moore’s the Pity: The Moral Horror of Alabama’s GOP Senate Nominee
C’mon. Despite the revelations of this past week, despite the polls showing his Democratic opponent ahead (remember those polls last November showing Hillary Clinton ahead of Donald Trump?), you might as well start calling him Senator Moore right now. It seemingly still has not dawned upon rational and logical Americans just how deep the rabbit […]
Posted inMain, Political Animal
On Jeff Flake, Goldwater and Trump
Sen. Flake thinks the Republicans have deviated from true conservatism. He’s wrong.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Why Trump’s Nostalgia Voters Support His Embrace of Putin
The Russian leader has been described as a ‘Christian Crusader.’
Posted inPolitical Animal
Judge Not: Neil Gorsuch Doesn’t Deserve to Be Confirmed to the Supreme Court
The activists pushing Senate Democrats to resist Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court seat Republicans robbed from Barack Obama recognize that Neil Gorsuch has no business replacing the late Antonin Scalia. Will Senate Democrats come to the same conclusion? The case against confirming Gorsuch is the same as the case against confirming Robert Bork […]
Posted inPolitical Animal
The Consequences of Clint’s Callousness
Somewhere in Burbank, California, a Warner Bros. Pictures executive is wishing Clint Eastwood would have kept his mouth shut. By mocking critics of bigoted Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Eastwood has effectively dragged his upcoming film Sully–a dramatization of then-US Airways pilot Chesley Sullenberger’s heroism on the Hudson in January 2009–into the culture wars. How […]
