Magazine – Columnists

President Donald Trump speaks at the FBI National Academy graduation ceremony on December 15, 2017 in Quantico, Virginia. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump leads, think tanks follow

By Salena Zito July 25, 2025 5:20 am

“Alma Mater,” a bronze statue by Daniel Chester French (1852-1931) welcomes students and visitors from the monumental staircase of Low Library at Columbia University.

Sentimental education

Dan Hannan and Tiana Lowe Doescher Jul 25, 2025

Ukrainian civilians try to extinguish a house fire after Russian shelling on the city of Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, 16 July 2025. (Photo by Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Trump’s backing of Ukraine has come too late

Dan Hannan Jul 18, 2025

Epstein mess a growing threat to Trump

Byron York Jul 17, 2025

Why climate change alarmism failed

David Harsanyi Jul 15, 2025

Pope Francis saw the plague of alienation

By Timothy P. Carney May 2, 2025 5:45 am

Borgia liberalism

By Dominic Green May 1, 2025 11:10 pm

India and Pakistan are our future

By Dan Hannan May 1, 2025 11:00 pm

Industrial policy for K Street

By Timothy P. Carney April 25, 2025 5:12 am

Trump is singlehandedly destroying global conservatism

By Dan Hannan April 25, 2025 12:25 am

Flags wave at the Washington Monument on the National Mall in Washington, Tuesday, July 12, 2011, as temperatures climbed into the upper 90s in the Washington area.

Machiavelli in America

By Dominic Green April 25, 2025 12:05 am

The wealth of nations

By Dominic Green April 10, 2025 11:40 pm

Trump is going full Latin American

By Dan Hannan April 10, 2025 11:10 pm

Profiles in discouragement

By Dominic Green April 4, 2025 5:10 am

Trump tariffs bring business to DC

By Timothy P. Carney April 4, 2025 5:05 am

A short history of the Woke Right

By Dominic Green March 27, 2025 11:10 pm

For team Trump, power means money and fame

By Timothy P. Carney March 26, 2025 11:25 pm