Henry Olsen

Columnist at The Washington Post

Host at Beyond the Polls Podcast

Senior Fellow, @EPPCdc. Host of Beyond the Polls podcast - https://t.co/dJAJ24wjRH…

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Claremont Review of Books

1 week ago | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Henry Olsen |John Rosenthal |Peter Skerry |Michael Burlingame

Download Subscriber Only Subscribe President Donald Trump’s whirlwind of early activity reminded Americans what leadership can look like. But effective leadership consists of much more than throwing a lot of executive orders against the wall to see what legally sticks. It requires prudential judgment, assessing what is possible now. Taking big risks with imperfect information is also a key characteristic of real leaders. Both President George H.W. Bush and George W.
Claremont Review of Books

1 week ago | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Paul Gottfried |Vladimir Golstein |Henry Olsen |Gary Saul Morson

Download Subscriber Only Subscribe A distinguished presbyterian theologian and incisive critic of the modern cult of the individual, Carl R. Trueman devotes his latest book, To Change All Worlds: Critical Theory from Marx to Marcuse, to the Frankfurt School and the rise of critical theory.
Claremont Review of Books

1 week ago | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Gary Saul Morson |Anthony Esolen |Henry Olsen

Download Subscriber Only Subscribe “We shall know nothing,” wrote Albert Camus, “until we know whether we have the right to kill our fellow men.” Andrew Klavan cites this comment in his splendid new book, The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness. The kingdom of Cain is the world in which humanity has dwelled since Adam and Eve’s eldest son, the first person born after the fall, committed the first murder. Violent crime has haunted us ever since.
Blow for ‘progressive’ Tusk: Anti-abortion trio receive majority in presidential vote

2 weeks ago | brusselssignal.eu | Henry Olsen

The Brussels elites were surely dismayed at how well conservative populist candidates fared in Sunday’s first round of Poland’s presidential election. They would probably be even more surprised to discover a likely cause: abortion. Poland’s ruling coalition was openly backed by the establishment powers that be in the run-up to the 2023 parliamentary vote.
An Artificial Intelligence Action Plan

3 weeks ago | eppc.org | Clare Morell |Jamie Hall |Ryan T. Anderson |Henry Olsen

Published May 16, 2025 These comments were submitted to the White House in response to the request for comment it solicited for developing the White House AI Action Plan. This document is approved for public dissemination. The document contains no business-proprietary or confidential information.
There are signs that the GOP is avoiding the Medicaid trap

3 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Henry Olsen

Many Republican members of Congress have been leery of cuts to Medicaid, afraid of being tarred by Democratic attack ads. The recently released House Energy and Commerce Committee draft proposals should help them rest more easily because they avoid the classic Republican mistake: appearing to care more about saving money than saving lives. Democrats have accused the GOP of being cruel to the average citizen since the Great Depression.
Franciscan University – Commencement Address - Ethics & Public Policy Center

3 weeks ago | eppc.org | Mary Hasson |Jamie Hall |Ryan T. Anderson |Henry Olsen

Published May 10, 2025 Thank you, Father Dave, for that warm introduction. And deepest thanks, from me, and on behalf of my husband, Seamus, to you, the Trustees, and the Franciscan family for this great honor. Seamus and I have numerous Franciscan graduates in our family, and among our friends and colleagues. But now… We’re delighted officially to be part of the Franciscan family. Thank you.
Why Trump Should Not Fight the Courts

4 weeks ago | eppc.org | Henry Olsen |Jamie Hall |Ryan Anderson |George Weigel

Published April 24, 2025 National Review Online Many supporters of President Donald Trump seem to be attacking the judiciary when judges or appellate courts rule against the administration’s position. This is a potentially consequential mistake, for both the short- and long-term future of conservative-populist politics.
Canada Trade Negotiations: Mark Carney Will Lose Standoff with Trump

4 weeks ago | nationalreview.com | Henry Olsen
Post-war conservatism is fading fast, yet the centre-right cannot grasp the fact

4 weeks ago | brusselssignal.eu | Henry Olsen

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s historic, embarrassing failure to be installed on the Bundestag’s first vote merely underscores an increasingly undeniable trend: traditional post-war conservatism is fading fast. That observation would have been risible twenty years ago. Pro-market, pro-internationalist conservative parties were either in power or the main opposition almost everywhere in the Western world.