Category: History

The Rise of Democratic Socialism

Read the DSA’s 2026 manifesto, which has no time for nuance in laying out its overriding ambition: for the “working class” to rise up and create “a future without capitalism.” No one will have “bills,” because “food, education, energy, medicine, and transportation” will be “common goods and utilities.”

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The Significance of the Recently Released Russia Hoax Documents

The Russia collusion hoax was anchored to two central claims: first, that Trump was a compromised agent of Russia, and second, that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump. The first claim was completely debunked after years of investigation. It is on the second and far more plausible claim—which was just as key to the hoax—that the newly released documents shed new light. And the revelations are shocking.

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Tariffs in American History

When Alexander Hamilton became the nation’s first Secretary of the Treasury, he immediately began to prepare a schedule of tariffs, along with excise taxes on such commodities as alcohol and tobacco. The Constitution forbids taxing the exports of any state, and so American tariffs have always been laid only on imports.

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Restoring American Culture

Trump has repeatedly said that his common-sense revolution would usher in a “new golden age.” In the context of unleashing the economy and technological innovation, we can understand this to mean literal gold. But a large part of our new golden age will be aggregated under the rubric of normality. The return of common sense is also the return of the normal. What would that look like in the realm of culture?

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