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PremiumThe Conservative Case for Antitrust
For decades the right defended bigness on principle. The principle has not held up. A serious conservative antitrust tradition exists — and it predates the New Deal by half a century.
Against the Permanent Campaign
A senator who fundraises six months a year cannot legislate. A president whose comms shop is his reelection committee cannot govern. We have built a political class whose central activity is performance.
PremiumThe Family Is Infrastructure
We treat roads and bridges as economic infrastructure. We treat the household as private taste. The categories are reversed. A serious conservative family policy would close the gap.
PremiumWe Are Not Going Back to the Cold War — We Are Already in the Next One
Beijing, Moscow, Tehran, Pyongyang. The coordination is real, deliberate, and largely unanswered. This is not the Cold War. It is the next one, and we have barely begun to organize ourselves for it.