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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Charles Lehman |Keith E. Whittington |Andy Smarick |Daniel McCarthy
In our polarized era, there are fewer and fewer spaces where people who disagree can do so productively and in good faith. The Dispatch’s Debate Series aims to be an outlier: a regular feature where two writers with opposing views can hash out some of the thorniest political and cultural issues roiling the national conversation. If you have an idea for a future topic, please let us know at [email protected].
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2 months ago | 
thedispatch.com | Andy Smarick |Daniel McCarthy |Michael Toscano |Jessica Melugin
Dispatch Debates logo Important institutions should never be led by those whose primary qualifications are eccentricity and provocation. In our polarized era, there are fewer and fewer spaces where people who disagree can do so productively and in good faith. The Dispatch’s Debate Series aims to be an outlier: a regular feature where two writers with opposing views can hash out some of the thorniest political and cultural issues roiling the national debate.
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2 months ago | 
lawliberty.org | Andy Smarick |Edward Whelan |Helen Dale |Paul Moreno
Many Americans are frustrated by elite private universities. We’ve seen their hostility to diversity of opinion and free speech, politically imbalanced faculty and administrators, galling instances of antisemitism, enormous costs, unfair admissions processes, and more. For such reasons, public approval of higher education had been low and falling for some time, particularly on America’s right.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Warren |Andy Smarick |Andrew Egger |David Drucker
The giant poster on the side of the Heritage Foundation’s eight-story Capitol Hill headquarters is impossible to miss. Underneath the think tank’s bell logo and the phrase “Congratulations, President Trump,” the now-iconic photograph of Donald Trump raising his fist in the air moments after a bullet nearly killed him looks out defiantly toward Union Station and Massachusetts Avenue. But let’s say you did miss it.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Rachael Larimore |Andy Smarick |Charles Hilu |Mary Trimble
Plus, Donald Trump is bringing Florida to Washington. Published November 23, 2024 Hello and happy Saturday. How are your Thanksgiving preparations coming? Here in the Ohio bureau, we have the requisite two turkeys in the fridge, and I’ll do a big trip to the store tomorrow, before we put up the Christmas tree.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Nick Catoggio |Kevin Williamson |Michael Warren |Andy Smarick
Why are so many of Trump’s nominees accused sex pests? Published November 22, 2024 One of the cringiest habits in modern journalism is treating fads on social media as evidence of meaningful political trends. … says a guy who can’t get through a newsletter without sputtering over the latest trollish provocation he stumbled across on Twitter. I’m a hypocrite, but my hypocrisy doesn’t make the point less valid. Social media (usually) isn’t real life.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Andy Smarick |Charles Hilu |Kevin Williamson |Mary Trimble
Matt Gaetz’s withdrawal as Donald Trump’s AG pick is far from unprecedented. Published November 22, 2024 While the president decides whom to choose for the senior roles in his administration, there’s no getting around the Senate’s role in confirming Cabinet nominees, as President-elect Donald Trump and his now-former choice for attorney general, Matt Gaetz, have learned.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Warren |Charles Hilu |Kevin Williamson |Andy Smarick
Donald Trump is bringing the Sunshine State to D.C. Published November 22, 2024 For weeks after he first won the White House in late 2016, Donald Trump held court at Trump Tower, his Fifth Avenue skyscraper in Manhattan that perfectly embodied the man’s public image: a wealthy, gaudy titan of real estate and fixture of the New York tabloids.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Kevin Williamson |Michael Warren |Charles Hilu |Andy Smarick
Published November 22, 2024 Editor’s Note: Part 1 of “Politics Will Return” was published on Wednesday, November 20. If anybody ever gets around to making those Remnant bingo cards that Jonah Goldberg keeps promising us, one of the items will be his repeated reminder—and I am grateful to him for repeating it—that financial crises such as the one the United States (and much of the rest of the world) experienced in 2008-09 tend to pull long, enduring populist episodes in their wakes.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
city-journal.org | Andy Smarick
It’s been a rough few years for the Ivy League, whose schools have seen campus unrest, anti-Semitism, and hostility to free speech, alongside the shouting down of a federal judge, plagiarism, and other untoward-behavior allegations against leadership, capped off by an embarrassing congressional hearing. Elite private universities have not exactly covered themselves in glory. Nevertheless, their defenders insist, the elite schools still produce America’s leaders.
