In the Tradition of Liberty.
In the Tradition of Liberty.
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Julian G. Waller
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The recent capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has resulted in renewed interest on what ‘regime change’ looks like when done from the outside. A great deal of commentary has fixated on whether the action was justified or how we should judge it in relation to the international system Yet lying in the background is…
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It is a common tic for foreign policy commentators to make confident assertions about what dictators are like at the negotiating table. There are apparently “Ten Simple Rules” in such negotiations, including “dictators are dictators for a reason” and “a dictatorship’s core goal is merely to perpetuate itself.” Some advise that negotiators “show [dictators] how…
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American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order, by Jerome Copulsky. Yale University Press, 384 pp., $40.00. Liberalism, postliberalism, illiberalism, anti-liberalism. Christian nationalism, American nationalism, protectionism, national-conservatism, integralism, accelerationism, neoreaction, fascism. Far right, hard right, tech right, trad right, New Right. MAGA, MAHA, Musk. The current era of discontented ideological flux in America is replete with…
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Across modern American history, our elites have shown a soft-spot for authoritarian leaders abroad. Some have even mused about such models bearing fruit closer to home. Although this pattern includes dictatorships representing all sorts of ideologies, Jacob Heilbrunn, the editor of The National Interest has chosen the Right as his focus in America Last: The Right’s…