Salon of the Refused, Episode 16

Announcement by , December 11, 2019

Episode 16 of my podcast series, Salon of the Refused, is now available. I talk with Cathy Young, writer at Quillette, The Bulwark, and elsewhere, about our plight stuck between illiberal strands of both the right and the left. The conversation includes: Political Correctness and Soviet art and literature, how the nationalist right reminds her of the […]

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What If the World Isn’t Ending?

Commentary by , December 9, 2019

Five Things You Need to Read Today 1. What If the World Isn’t Ending? Part 1 When I attended the debate at Catholic University between David French and the nationalist conservative Sohrab Ahmari, one of big things I discovered was how deeply committed the Christians in attendance were to the notion that we are living […]

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The Call Is Coming from Inside the House

Commentary by , December 4, 2019

Five Things You Need to Read Today 1. Good Order and Discipline It still surprises me a little that there are Objectivists who are big defenders of Donald Trump. He seems so opposite in manner and style to anything in Ayn Rand’s fiction, or non-fiction for that matter—so blustering and anti-intellectual—that I can’t understand the […]

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Ayn Rand Is for Adolescents

Feature Article by , November 30, 2019

Take advantage of our Holiday Sale on subscriptions to The Tracinski Letter. Subscribe or renew from now through the end of the holidays and get 15% off. Also, remember that I am still raising funds to hit my target for writing and promoting my next book in defense of the autonomous individual. Check out my […]

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The Triumph of the Will

Commentary by , November 26, 2019

Five Things You Need to Read Today 1. The Trumpocalypse If Republican politicians are not moved by the evidence against Donald Trump in the impeachment hearings, we might conclude that it’s because they are looking at their voters back home and calculating that they are more likely to be re-elected if they stand by Trump. […]

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Impeachment Is Over

Commentary by , November 24, 2019

Impeachment Roundup The public impeachment hearings are finished in the House, and what have we learned from them? The Dispatch, Jonah Goldberg’s new outfit, has a good overview of the testimony from the past week, while Michael McFaul, former US Ambassador to Russia, provides a summary of the wider story. Here are the outlines. President […]

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Tank Man City

Commentary by , November 19, 2019

World News Roundup Some time ago, I decided to take off last week in an attempt to get a little more rest and avoid burnout before going into the end-of-the-year rush and starting work on my new book project. It’s only a week, I thought, what could possibly happen? A lot, it turns out. To […]

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The Only “Deep State” Is the One Trump Created

Feature Article by , November 14, 2019

Intrepid Republican sleuths finally found the Deep State operatives who have been working to bring down President Trump by creating the appearance of an improper, politically motivated quid pro quo in his dealings with Ukraine. Those operatives are a rogue US ambassador and a lawyer operating in the shadows entirely outside the normal workings of […]

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Sean Spicer on “Dancing with the Stars” Is Everything That’s Wrong with the Trump Era

Feature Article by , November 8, 2019

Some of us have been wondering exactly what victory in the Culture War would look like. Well, now we know what Trump country thinks victory looks like. God help us, it looks like this. That’s Sean Spicer, former White House press secretary, clomping his way through a routine on “Dancing with the Stars,” where he […]

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The Foreign Policy of the United States

Commentary by , November 4, 2019

Impeachment Roundup As I mentioned in the last edition, to keep impeachment news from overwhelming everything else, I’ll be putting almost all of my commentary on this issue into separate updates like this one that will come out every week or two as developments merit. I’m going to try not to get bogged down in […]

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