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4 days ago | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Gil Guerra |Michael Rosen |Kevin Williamson
The rant heard ‘round the world. Published April 19, 2025 Jonah Goldberg spends ninety minutes plotting his transition to telethon moderation, lambasting the youth, and reminding the new GOP that you can’t pick and choose who gets universal rights. Plus: further ruminations on the bond market and the anniversary of the shot heard ‘round the world.
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1 week ago | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Joel Tannenbaum |Kevin Williamson |David Drucker
Vibes? Papers? Essays? Podcasts? Published April 16, 2025 Jonah Goldberg is joined by Adam Kirsch to discuss Kirsch’s new book, On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice. What does settler colonialism actually mean in the Israeli context? Where did the school of thought originate? And how can Israel move forward under the framework of settler colonialist ideology?
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1 week ago | 
thedispatch.com | Kevin Williamson |Jonah Goldberg |Joel Tannenbaum |David Drucker
Michelle’s company is one of those proud American manufacturing businesses we keep hearing about from the Trump administration, which is doing its level best to wreck her business through its entirely predictable managerial incompetence. Elon Musk proposed to bring that famous “Move fast, break things” Silicon Valley ethos to the federal government, but he only managed one half of that package—and it wasn’t the half you’d want.
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1 week ago | 
thedispatch.com | Jeremiah Johnson |James Kirchick |Kevin Williamson |Alex Demas
The first thing I said when they finished cutting out my kidney was, “Oh god, it hurts like a m*****f*****.”Don’t worry. I wasn’t the victim of a back-alley scheme to steal organs. Six years ago, I donated my kidney to a stranger on the kidney waiting list, in what’s known as an altruistic or non-directed donation. I did get some pain medication pretty quickly after my … emphatic declaration, I recovered over the next two weeks, and I’ve been perfectly healthy since.
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1 week ago | 
thedispatch.com | James Kirchick |Kevin Williamson |Jonah Goldberg |Charlotte Lawson
World Events Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty helped win the Cold War. It still has an important role to play. Published April 15, 2025 Scroll to the comments section Audio versions are only available to subscribers of The Dispatch. Join Today! to listen to this post.
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1 week ago | 
thedispatch.com | Charles Hilu |John Mccormack |Michael Warren |Kevin Williamson
Is Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon a throwback to the 1980s, a disappearing breed of Republican, or a swing-district moderate swimming against the tide of his party? He might be all three. Having held his seat since 2017 in an Omaha-based district that Kamala Harris carried in 2024 after Joe Biden won it in 2020, Bacon can hardly help but stick to the center. But does he see himself as a moderate? “So-called right-wing people call me that, but they’re the ones who are isolationist and like protectionism.
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1 week ago | 
thedispatch.com | Kevin Williamson |Charlotte Lawson |Cole Murphy |James Sutton
There was more heavy industry than you might expect in Lubbock, Texas, in the 1970s and 1980s, when I was growing up there. It was pretty unglamorous stuff: things related to cotton processing, a dogfood plant, etc. The crown jewels were a Frito-Lay factory, which could smell really good or really … not good … depending on what was being made at the time, and a Texas Instruments home-computer factory, which produced the once-ubiquitous TI99 at a rate of 5,000 a day.
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1 week ago | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Sarah Isgur |Kevin Williamson
‘Stop playing 9-dimensional chess, you’re not good at it.’ By , , and Published April 11, 2025 Sarah Isgur, David French, and Jonah Goldberg discuss the sad state of the three branches of government and the wild, wild world of tariffs. The Agenda:—Judicial branch wins for the week—Congress does nothing—The youths yearn for the assembly line—Free trade is good—Abusing emergency powers—Trump’s comments on Chris Krebs—Throw cheese slices at your kid?
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1 week ago | 
thedispatch.com | Kevin Williamson |John Mccormack |Michael Warren |Frederic Frommer
One way of understanding Donald Trump’s erratic presidency is to assume that he is trying to generate chaos. But that is not quite it. What he is trying to generate is storylines. And he knows which direction plots move: forward. Donald Trump was never much of an executive, a fact attested to by his many high-profile failures (the casinos, the Plaza, etc.) and his scams (Trump University, the accounting shenanigans, etc.).
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1 week ago | 
thedispatch.com | John Mccormack |Michael Warren |Nick Catoggio |Kevin Williamson
Policy Why Utah’s senior Republican senator has no plans to reintroduce his bill to reassert congressional authority over tariffs. Published April 11, 2025 Scroll to the comments section Audio versions are only available to subscribers of The Dispatch. Join Today! to listen to this post. On January 20, 2017, Republican Sen.
