Jude Russo

Washington, D.C.

Managing Editor at The American Conservative

Contributing Editor at The New York Sun

Managing editor @amconmag and contributing editor @NewYorkSun, column @thelampmagazine every other week. 2024–25 Madison Fellow @Hillsdale. @ISI 20 Under 30.

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Articles

National Security Council Cut by Half

2 weeks ago | theamericanconservative.com | Jude Russo

Uncategorized National Security Council Cut by Half Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The Trump administration on Friday fired roughly half the National Security Council as part of a radical restructuring of that body’s structures and functions.
Alasdair MacIntyre, R.I.P.

2 weeks ago | thelampmagazine.com | Joseph Epstein |J. Vance |Jude Russo |Paul Griffiths

Alasdair MacIntyre began to mean something to me as a third-year university student, since After Virtue hit harder than anything else on the syllabi for PHIL 372 Contemporary Ethics and PLPT 407 Liberalism and Its Critics at the University of Virginia. The former was wonderfully taught by his last dissertation student, Rebecca Stangl.
The Silvery Trail

2 weeks ago | thelampmagazine.com | Joseph Epstein |J. Vance |Jude Russo |Paul Griffiths

Melancholy has settled in at the Russo manse. Journalism won the Preakness, but Pimlico is now closed indefinitely for renovations—that is to say, destruction and new building on the site—and vaguely described efforts to spruce up the track’s down-at-the-heels neighborhood. Disinterested observers expect this to go about as well as any other urban renewal project in Baltimore. Wednesday saw preschool graduation, which yanked a crystalline bead or two from your humble correspondent’s gleaming orbs.
Nuclear Deterrence Is Over

2 weeks ago | theamericanconservative.com | Jude Russo

Foreign Affairs Nuclear Deterrence Is Over The Russia–Ukraine and Indo–Pak conflicts have undercut the threat of the Bomb. Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... There are, roughly speaking, three schools of doctrine on nuclear defense.
A Night to Remember

2 weeks ago | theamericanconservative.com | Jude Russo |Peter Tonguette

Food A Night to Remember If you’re going to eat McDonald’s, why not eat at McDonald’s? Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... While I have not yet sauntered into my local Steak ’n Shake to judge the purported superiority of beef tallow-drenched French fries, I have not been idle in my ongoing, apparently lifelong, survey of America’s fast-food offerings.
The Purple Witch

3 weeks ago | thelampmagazine.com | J. Vance |Joseph Epstein |Jude Russo |Paul Griffiths

Now that hardly anyone actually reads Lewis Carroll, it is perhaps once again possible to speak of the old East Germany as a country which was “Through the Looking Glass.” Half a century ago, this was a terrible cliché, though anyone who passed from one side of Berlin to the other quickly found that (as so often) it was a cliché because it was true. Every feature of life at first appeared the same as on the other side. But then it turned out to be wholly, profoundly different.
Habemus Papam

4 weeks ago | thelampmagazine.com | J. Vance |Joseph Epstein |Jude Russo |Paul Griffiths

In the blue afternoon the bird appeared, perched on a high roof in the capital of the world. It was a seagull, dancing in the sun. Perhaps it felt lonely, for it was soon joined by its mate and their hungry offspring. Indifferent to the cheers below them in the ruined circus and to the old men who lurked in the gilded ossuary chattering and marking bits of paper destined for oblivion, the mother spat out the corpse of a rodent, which the chick happily devoured.
A Chicago Yankee in Saint Peter’s Court

4 weeks ago | thelampmagazine.com | J. Vance |Joseph Epstein |Jude Russo |Paul Griffiths

America has finally joined the ranks of great Western civilizations and produced a pope, along with the Italians, the French, the Germans, the Greeks, the Dutch, the Jews, and, somewhat inexplicably, the Poles.
Pope Leo XIV Crowned as First American Pontiff

4 weeks ago | theamericanconservative.com | Jude Russo

Religion Pope Leo XIV Crowned as First American Pontiff Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The American Robert Cardinal Prevost assumed leadership of the Roman Catholic Church Thursday as Pope Leo XIV, following two days of voting by the cardinals.
It’s Not Too Late to Get Admin Staffing Right

1 month ago | theamericanconservative.com | Jude Russo

Politics It’s Not Too Late to Get Admin Staffing Right Two swallows—or firings—do not a summer make. Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Do you hear calliope music? That’s the sound of the Trump staffing carousel steaming up to speed. Mike Waltz was kicked upstairs last Thursday to the UN ambassadorship from his perch atop the National Security Council, following a thoroughgoing purge of his underlings.