Earlier this month, Unherd contributing editor Mary Harrington responded to my criticism of her apparent willingness to consider “Caesarism” — that is, strongman, authoritarian rule — as a solution ...

Argument for a ‘red Caesar’ to rule US may seem esoteric but conservative thinktank behind idea has connections to Trump In June, the rightwing academic Kevin Slack published a book-length polemic ...

From the latest Patrick Deneen essay: Consider the positions that the mainstream of American conservatism spends a great deal of its time and treasure defending today: Each of these positions was a ...

Obama perhaps calculated that he could get away with this lawlessness because of his uniqueness. The Constitution provides a remedy for lawless executives -- but while Obama has arguably committed ...

Healy’s dissection of the delusions of “redemption through presidential politics” comes at a moment when liberals, for reasons of liberalism, and conservatives, because they have forgotten their ...

The following excerpt is from the virtual book Republic to Principate: The Decline and Fall of Representative Democracy in America, published in the year 2052 A.D. But the biggest casualty of the ...

Julius Caesar styled himself as a servant of the republic, claiming to speak for the people even as he disregarded laws and norms to govern by caprice. The Roman republic did not survive him. The ...

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Jarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal. He is also the author of "The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America's Past." Send an email to Jarrett President Joe Biden demonstrated ...

According to polls, local government is the most popular form of government in America. A 2013 Pew survey found that 63 percent of Americans view their local government “favorably,” while only 28 ...

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