Michael Brendan Dougherty

Progressives have bet a little too much on this idea.

An interview with historian Sean McMeekin.

A lame duck with evident signs of dementia is the last person to match up against Vladimir Putin.

How the former president can hold his ground, and gain some, against the new Democratic nominee.

Every step forward she takes, the more vulnerable she appears.

Instead of being the bumbling screw-up and colossal failure of five months ago, Kamala Harris is now the front-runner. Pardon my skepticism.

Liberal groupthink makes American life creepy and could cost Democrats the election.

She was duly elected vice president, and the elected president is no longer competent to do the job. Simple as.

Or the felon, because the other guy is a corpse.

Rumor has it that men around Pope Francis want to finally extirpate the Latin Mass. They will fail.

Everyone knew. Now everyone can say it.

Two administrations that bungled the Covid crisis are going to pretend it never really happened.

Global capitalism talks about diversity and multiculturalism, but we are all modernizing toward conformity.

The people we miss around the table.

During a year in which it was an unrepentant geopolitical arsonist, China is emerging stronger than ever.

My Christmas time spent with Nat King Cole, G. K. Chesterton, and Mickey Mouse.

The sheer endlessness of this is mind-numbing.

So comes a close to five years of vain wishing.

Unlike most Republicans, Trump has done it. It’s a necessary first step. The next steps will be harder.

Why I’d be surprised, but not shocked, if Trump pulls off another upset victory.

The president’s notorious difficulties with recruiting and managing staff could become even worse if he’s reelected.

The next two debates will be better. They almost have to be.

By conceding RBG’s seat in a deal with Democrats, Republicans would have only perpetuated the morbid life of the anti-democratic progressive clerisy.

Shared sacrifice for the sake of others is a boon, but some varieties of nationalism are performative and selfish.

For many progressives, squaring up & beating Trump in an election isn’t enough. Instead Trump must be “toppled” somehow, preferably in a major confrontation.

The absolute vacuum in American politics is being filled by partisan rage.

Fraud, chaos, the end of the Republic?

Those conspiracy theorists who have clung to a stubborn faith in the president look set to soon find that he’s abandoned them in a world he hardly changed.

The president, faced with a true crisis, got bored.

The media has decided there’s more emotional satisfaction in failure than in performing the function with which the public entrusts it.