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COMMENTARY is America’s premier monthly magazine of opinion and a pivotal voice in American intellectual life. Since its inception in 1945, and increasingly after it emerged as the flagship of neoconservatism in the 1970s, the magazine has been consistently engaged with several large, interrelated questions: the fate of democracy and of democratic ideas in a world threatened by totalitarian ideolo

gies; the state of American and Western security; the future of the Jews, Judaism, and Jewish culture in Israel, the United States, and around the world; and the preservation of high culture in an age of political correctness and the collapse of critical standards. Many of COMMENTARY’s articles have been controversial, and more than a few have been hugely influential, touchstones for debate and discussion in universities, among policy analysts in and out of government, within the ranks of professionals and community activists of all kinds, and in circles of serious thought worldwide. A large number of articles can be counted as landmarks of American letters and intellectual life. To read it is to take part in the great American discussion.

Virtucrats have long been with us.
02/02/2025

Virtucrats have long been with us.

Whenever I am among people discussing politics and the discussion begins to turn contentious, I generally remind my companions that “I have never lost a political argument” and, after a

Clare McHugh reviews Kingmaker, by Sonia Purnell.Read more 👉 https://lttr.ai/AbAw3
02/02/2025

Clare McHugh reviews Kingmaker, by Sonia Purnell.

Read more 👉 https://lttr.ai/AbAw3

Promptly after she was appointed ambassador to France in 1993 by grateful former protégé President Bill Clinton, Pamela Harriman was the subject of not one, but two censorious biographies. The

In an irony that ought to scramble the brains of MSNBC anchors, America remains the world’s most stable democracy as Don...
02/02/2025

In an irony that ought to scramble the brains of MSNBC anchors, America remains the world’s most stable democracy as Donald Trump takes office and the country prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

You’ve heard it before: American democracy is dying. Our 237-year-old Constitution is out of date. The U.S. Senate and the Electoral College are bulwarks of white supremacy. The legislative filibuster

Popularizations of traditional womanhood have been around for decades; social-media platforms merely gave them more exte...
02/02/2025

Popularizations of traditional womanhood have been around for decades; social-media platforms merely gave them more extensive reach and profitability.

Last year, on social-media accounts with names like Ballerina Farm, and in online magazines such as Evie, a new type of woman emerged to bedevil cultural observers: the “tradwife.” Depending

Princeton University data scientist Zeynep Tufekci writes, “If there is an avian flu epidemic it will rank among the mos...
02/02/2025

Princeton University data scientist Zeynep Tufekci writes, “If there is an avian flu epidemic it will rank among the most foreseeable crises in history.”

During the peak Covid years, our public-health establishment vastly expanded its scope. Officials took it upon themselves to micromanage which aisles could stay open in stores and which playgrounds and

By this point in time, as many as 250,000 young women and girls in towns and cities across Britain—the figure is an extr...
01/02/2025

By this point in time, as many as 250,000 young women and girls in towns and cities across Britain—the figure is an extrapolation from official reports, multiplied by the number of towns where there have been prosecutions—may have been victimized.

Jess Phillips, a member of the Labour Party’s huge majority in the British House of Commons, was first elected to Parliament in 2015 and has made a name for herself

Female journalists regularly write about how the expectations of motherhood are all but impossible to fulfill. At least ...
01/02/2025

Female journalists regularly write about how the expectations of motherhood are all but impossible to fulfill. At least if they can’t get “a room of one’s own,” maybe they can get some government-funded health care and some mandatory paternity leave.

Reviewing the movie Nightbitch, about a mother who is transformed into a wild dog by the demands of staying at home with her toddler, the New York Times’ Manohla Dargis

Michael Oakeshott thought politics “an inferior form of human activity” that was about nothing more than the struggle fo...
01/02/2025

Michael Oakeshott thought politics “an inferior form of human activity” that was about nothing more than the struggle for power, and as such “an uninteresting form of activity to anyone who has no desire to rule others.”

Whenever I am among people discussing politics and the discussion begins to turn contentious, I generally remind my companions that “I have never lost a political argument” and, after a

“To portray English aristocrats as black or mixed-race is, conversely, an act of racism, as it suggests that ethnic mino...
01/02/2025

“To portray English aristocrats as black or mixed-race is, conversely, an act of racism, as it suggests that ethnic minorities in Tudor Britain had the doors of society flung open to them when, in fact, they led drear and oppressed lives.”

On six successive Sunday evenings in November and December, British television viewers were served a tasty treat: the second and final tranche of episodes in the BBC’s magisterial adaption of novelist

Hamas Has Nothing But Contempt For Its Defenders
31/01/2025

Hamas Has Nothing But Contempt For Its Defenders

However much contempt one has for the Hamas cheering squads in the West and its stenographers in the media, it will never surpass the contempt Hamas itself has for them.

The most important early work was Peter Braestrup’s magisterial Big Story, published in 1977. It was an exhaustive accou...
31/01/2025

The most important early work was Peter Braestrup’s magisterial Big Story, published in 1977. It was an exhaustive account of how the mainstream media in 1968 took an American victory in the battle of Tet and turned it into a defeat.

For the past 15 years, every issue of COMMENTARY has had a monthly feature devoted to the media—first, by Andrew Ferguson, then by Matthew Continetti, and since 2020, by Christine

Now that hostilities have paused, Hamas is taking stock of what it has and what it has lost. It has lost Deif, but it ha...
31/01/2025

Now that hostilities have paused, Hamas is taking stock of what it has and what it has lost. It has lost Deif, but it has gained a bunch of useful idiots for whom it has nothing but contempt.

However much contempt one has for the Hamas cheering squads in the West and its stenographers in the media, it will never surpass the contempt Hamas itself has for them.

The Conspiracists Have Their Day
31/01/2025

The Conspiracists Have Their Day

James B. Meigs joins the podcast to talk about the DC plane-helicopter collision and what it tells us about disasters, after which we examine the RFK-Gabbard-Patel confirmation hearings and what

James B. Meigs joins the podcast to talk about the DC plane-helicopter collision and what it tells us about disasters, a...
31/01/2025

James B. Meigs joins the podcast to talk about the DC plane-helicopter collision and what it tells us about disasters, after which we examine the RFK-Gabbard-Patel confirmation hearings and what they tell us about the state of conspiracy theorizing in the United States.

James B. Meigs joins the podcast to talk about the DC plane-helicopter collision and what it tells us about disasters, after which we examine the RFK-Gabbard-Patel confirmation hearings and what

The Akedah is anathema to the intellect, to one who is a moral reasoner. But it firmly fixes the second Abraham as the f...
31/01/2025

The Akedah is anathema to the intellect, to one who is a moral reasoner. But it firmly fixes the second Abraham as the faithful forefather who recognizes that in an often-absurd cosmos, acceptance provides a wisdom beyond reason.

As a student at the Jewish Theological Seminary, I once attended a public debate between David Weiss Halivni and Louis Jacobs, both formidable figures in modern Jewish life. Halivni, who was

Wilson’s autocratic tendencies, and his opposition to the broadening of suffrage to include blacks and women, far from b...
31/01/2025

Wilson’s autocratic tendencies, and his opposition to the broadening of suffrage to include blacks and women, far from being anomalous, were entirely consistent with the larger Progressive vision.

Among the challenges facing the Democratic Party in its climb back from a disastrous 2024 defeat is the fact that, despite being the oldest active political party in the world,

Unequal treatment under the law has been at the center of this entire controversy. Jewish students’ civil rights under T...
31/01/2025

Unequal treatment under the law has been at the center of this entire controversy. Jewish students’ civil rights under Title VI have been violated at will on campuses that accept federal funds or are themselves public institutions.

President Trump has signed a new executive order to fight anti-Semitism. The key to its provenance and purpose is a series of events on Nov. 9, 2023, at the Massachusetts

Trump’s New Executive Order on Anti-Semitism
31/01/2025

Trump’s New Executive Order on Anti-Semitism

President Trump has signed a new executive order to fight anti-Semitism. The key to its provenance and purpose is a series of events on Nov. 9, 2023, at the Massachusetts

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