Charles Cooke

Sep 3, 2024 | reason.com | Matt Welch |Katherine Mangu-Ward |Nick Gillespie |Charles Cooke

Israel Plus: A listener asks the editors, when it is right to revolt to stop repeated miscarriages of justice?

Aug 22, 2024 | constitutioncenter.org | Charles Cooke

Charles Cook of the National Review, Melody Barnes of the University of Virginia, and Sean Wilentz of Princeton University explore the debate about the core values of the American Idea—liberty, equality, democracy, and federalism—throughout American history and model the way in which Americans of different perspectives can come together in the spirit of civil dialogue. This program was recorded live on February 9, 2024.

Aug 13, 2024 | euphoricrecall.net | Charles Cooke

I doubt that I’m alone when I say that the past month has been disorienting, and, quite frankly, dispiriting. We’re living in a deeply artificial zone of political unreality, a funhouse bizarro universe of distortion driven by a vertical messaging apparatus made possible by progressive control of America’s key institutions. And, as usual, it is the mainstream media, which is entrusted with sense-making and truth-telling, that’s playing a fundamental role in this distortion.

Aug 13, 2024 | open.substack.com | Charles Cooke

I doubt that I’m alone when I say that the past month has been disorienting, and, quite frankly, dispiriting. We’re living in a deeply artificial zone of political unreality, a funhouse bizarro universe of distortion driven by a vertical messaging apparatus made possible by progressive control of America’s key institutions. And, as usual, it is the mainstream media, which is entrusted with sense-making and truth-telling, that’s playing a fundamental role in this distortion.

Jun 11, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Marc Landy |Scott Yenor |Charles Cooke |John Grove

Symposium June 11, 2024 Yuval Levin's American Covenant argues that the Constitution still has what it takes to restore health to American political life. It is increasingly common to hear that the Constitution is the cause—or at least one cause—of America’s political dysfunction. It gets in the way of the efficient government the modern world needs. It does not offer a coherent enough moral vision. It allows too much dissension and factionalism. It does not keep up with the times.