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

Was Pope Francis a Liberal?

3 days ago | theamericanconservative.com | Jude Russo

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... “Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I build my Church. And the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.” Like most promises, this one holds less than meets the eye. If Catholics are right, it’s a promise of final triumph, sure; in the meantime, it’s little more than a warrant of bare survival. It does not guarantee good or particularly holy administration or vast membership or good temporal repute.
Pope Francis Dead at 88

3 days ago | theamericanconservative.com | Jude Russo

Religion Pope Francis Dead at 88 Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Pope Francis, born Jorge Bergoglio, died Monday morning at the age of 88 at his Vatican residence, per an official statement. The late pontiff had undergone a lengthy hospital stay following an attack of bronchitis in February. Arrangements for the funeral and subsequent conclave, at which the College of Cardinals will select the next pope, are forthcoming.
Longtime Restrainer Gets Top Intelligence Role

1 week ago | theamericanconservative.com | Andrew Day |Jude Russo

Politics Longtime Restrainer Gets Top Intelligence Role Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The American Conservative can confirm that William Ruger, a longtime advocate of U.S. foreign policy restraint, has been appointed to a top intelligence role in the Trump administration.
Will Trade Policy Be America First’s Iraq War?

1 week ago | theamericanconservative.com | Jude Russo

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... There’s a fine line between conviction and partisanship. A helpful rubric is whether you have stopped asking the question, What if we’re wrong? The Iraq War is an example of choice around The American Conservative’s offices, for good reason.
Trump’s Desperado Mission

1 week ago | theamericanconservative.com | Jude Russo

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... In the second century before Christ, Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, the Roman tribune of the plebs, proposed a reactionary program of legal and economic reform to address the republic’s pressing problems, particularly the dispossession of small landowners by the planter class, which had sapped the army of its traditional recruiting base and given birth to a large, unstable, propertyless urban underclass.
Death of a Company Man, by Jude Russo

2 weeks ago | brownpelicanla.com | Jude Russo

The Selective Morality of the Christian Social Justice Left and Right, by Jason JonesFr. Jeffrey Kirby: During Passiontide, the Church Doubles Down on Lent By Jude Russo, The American Conservative, April 9, 2025Jude Russo is the managing editor of The American Conservative and a contributing editor of The New York Sun. He is a 2024–25 James Madison Fellow at Hillsdale College and was named one of the ISI Top 20 Under 30 for 2024.
Death of a Company Man

2 weeks ago | theamericanconservative.com | Jude Russo

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Theodore McCarrick, the erstwhile archbishop of Washington, DC, shuffled off this mortal coil Thursday with little fanfare. The disgraced cardinal’s decease was overshadowed by the global economic chaos following Wednesday’s “Liberation Day” tariffs. How do you obituarize a problem like McCarrick?
War With Iran Is a Path to Destruction

3 weeks ago | theamericanconservative.com | Jude Russo

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Donald Trump rode into office—twice now—on a wave of promises to upend the Washington consensus, to drain the swamp of its self-serving mandarins and to keep America out of endless wars. His base cheered when he skewered the neoconservative architects of Iraq and Afghanistan, wars that bled our Treasury, and most importantly, many of our sons for little more than bragging rights in Beltway and Tel Aviv salons.
May/June 2025

3 weeks ago | theamericanconservative.com | Jude Russo

Reciprocity may be rhetorically expedient, but it has always been incompatible with tariff protection and tariff revenue goals. A new monetary combination is but one piece of a larger, politically difficult puzzle. Reviving a forgotten Roman and Indian trade route could contain China, unite America’s allies, and reshape the global order. The “neo-Ottoman” dreams of American Turkey-watchers exceed reality.
Mike Waltz's competence called into question after unforced error with 'Signalgate'

3 weeks ago | lifesitenews.com | Jude Russo

(The American Conservative) — “Signalgate” – nobody wanted to bite on the visually appealing but cumbersome to pronounce “Sighnalzi” – may sink into the dark waters of political memory without much of a ripple. The president is standing by his man; the Republican-held Congress will be disinclined to go investigating; that’s that. Yet the press circus is continuing unabated, and the midterms and a possible change of ruling party in Congress are not so very far off.