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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Scott Lincicome |Michael Warren |Bobby Miller |Aryana Petrosky
The market has changed but consumers’ needs are still being met. Published February 26, 2025 Among the more common economic tropes of the last 15 years has been the U.S. “.” Giant e-commerce companies, so the story goes, have killed traditional brick-and-mortar establishments in the United States, forcing American shoppers—particularly low-income ones—to travel farther for fewer (and lesser) retail opportunities and leaving them worse off overall.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | David Drucker |Aryana Petrosky |Jonah Goldberg |Charles Hilu
Politics Democrats struggle to compete with the messaging that drove men under 30 to Trump in 2024. Published February 26, 2025 To understand how much work Democrats have to do to reverse their slide among young men, a key factor in President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, look no further than the “Who We Serve” section of the Democratic Party’s website.
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2 months ago | 
thedispatch.com | Rachael Larimore |Aryana Petrosky |Peter Gattuso |Jonah Goldberg
Hello and happy Saturday. The Ukrainian cause and broader European security suffered major setbacks in the last 10 days: Vice President J.D. Vance criticized our allies at the Munich Security Conference, a U.S. delegation traveled to Saudi Arabia for negotiations with Russia on ending the war, and President Donald Trump called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “dictator” and claimed he “should have never started” the war.
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2 months ago | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Aryana Petrosky |Peter Gattuso |Nick Catoggio
Published February 22, 2025 Jonah Goldberg has words for the Trump administration signaling its willingness to betray Ukraine and turn allies into vassals all in the name of a faux-realist approach to geopolitics that feels more Corleone than Kissinger. Plus: an apology to Anthony Scaramucci, ruminations on the Eric Adams case, and the MAGA-induced pressure campaign within the conservative movement.
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2 months ago | 
thedispatch.com | Aryana Petrosky |Jonah Goldberg |Sarah Isgur |Chris Stirewalt
Margaret Heckler is not a name many Americans would recognize today, which is a shame. Political heroes are scant. Politicians who prioritize bipartisan collaboration rather than power and prestige have disappeared. And politicians who have broad appeal to Republicans, Democrats, independents, feminists, immigrants, veterans, Christians, and minorities are seemingly nonexistent.
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2 months ago | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Kevin Williamson |Aryana Petrosky |Nick Catoggio
American Impresario: William F. Buckley, Jr., and the Elements of American Character is mistitled. The title, and the advertising that has accompanied the book, suggests a biography of Buckley and his role in American life.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Dan Vallone |Aryana Petrosky |Yuval Levin |Jonah Goldberg
From 9/11 to the Great Recession to COVID, our policy response downplayed civic action. Published September 11, 2024 In the aftermath of September 11, President George W. Bush remarked that “it is natural to wonder if America’s future is one of fear.” Beyond the particularities of that genuinely difficult time, Bush’s words proved prescient in another way. September 11 turned out to be the opening chapter in a broader narrative of fear that defined much of the past 23 years.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Jeffery Tyler Syck |Ilya Somin |Keith E. Whittington |Aryana Petrosky
How the Intercollegiate Studies Institute traded the Western canon for present-day politics. Published July 22, 2024 About eight years ago, while still an undergraduate, I was selected for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s annual summer honors program, a weeklong immersion into the great books at a mountain resort in Southern Washington State.
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Jan 6, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Aryana Petrosky
To many conservatives, American institutions are in a constant state of crisis. A mass deterioration of civil society—from the nuclear family, to higher education, to community life—has led to many social and political woes, they point out, but the proposed solutions to institutional breakdown often remain outside our reach. If hoped-for policy changes could take generations to enact, what can the average American accomplish with a mere Tocquevillian lament?
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Jan 6, 2024 | 
aol.com | Aryana Petrosky
To many conservatives, American institutions are in a constant state of crisis. A mass deterioration of civil society—from the nuclear family, to higher education, to community life—has led to many social and political woes, they point out, but the proposed solutions to institutional breakdown often remain outside our reach. If hoped-for policy changes could take generations to enact, what can the average American accomplish with a mere Tocquevillian lament?
