Jon Gabriel

1 week ago | audible.com | Jon Gabriel

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2 weeks ago | discoursemagazine.com | Jon Gabriel

President Trump signed a flurry of executive orders on Inauguration Day, covering topics as diverse as border security, free speech, climate change, drug laws and architecture. Wait, architecture? It should be no surprise that a real estate developer would be interested in buildings, something Trump telegraphed in the final year of his first term.

1 month ago | discoursemagazine.com | Jon Gabriel

I come from the Ron Swanson school of government spending. If an official says, “We need to cut expenditures by 32%,” I’ll reply, “Let’s make it an even 40,” before starting a chant of “Slash it! Slash it!”So, imagine my surprise to learn that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is destroying America as we know it. At least that’s what I’ve gathered from the headlines.

2 months ago | discoursemagazine.com | Jon Gabriel

I began writing “The Autodidact” column a year ago to set aside the hot takes on the latest scandal and focus on the deeper issues facing America. Politics, culture, education—they’re all a bit of a mess, and as I’ve been writing this column, I’ve come to believe more than ever that conserving them is woefully inadequate to preserve our liberal order. What the right needs now is to focus not on “conservatism” but on restoration.

Jan 16, 2025 | capx.co | Jon Gabriel

16 January 2025 @exjon Photo by DAVE CHAN/AFP via Getty Images Photo by DAVE CHAN/AFP via Getty Images A progressive Canada has diverged from the US both economically and culturally The expected Canadian PM is far more politically aligned with Trump than Trudeau was While Trump shouts 'America first,' Pierre Poilievre responds with 'Canada first' An earlier version of this essay was published in Discourse Magazine. The once-warm relationship between the United States and Canada has cooled in...