Nathan J. Beacom

2 months ago | thedispatch.com | Sarah Isgur |Nathan J. Beacom |Charles Hilu

Plus: This acting-principal officer thing is out of control. By and Published February 17, 2025 In an emergency-ish episode, Sarah Isgur and David French go over the timeline of the Thursday Afternoon Massacre and its immediate fallout. What does the past week portend for President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice?

2 months ago | thedispatch.com | Kevin D. Williamson |Nathan J. Beacom |James Sutton |Michael Warren

Ukraine is being punished for its insistence on surviving as a nation and a people. Published February 17, 2025 “I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another,” J.D. Vance said in 2022 as he was running for the U.S. Senate. Now the vice president, he has been dispatched to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Munich. And it just had to be Munich, didn’t it? Where better to surrender to a tyrant without a fight?

2 months ago | thedispatch.com | Jamie Weinstein |Nathan J. Beacom |Charles Hilu |Grayson Logue

‘No, it’s a joke.’ Published February 17, 2025 War correspondent Tim Mak joins Jamie Weinstein to discuss the latest news out of Ukraine following President Donald Trump’s calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The Agenda:—What’s on the negotiating table? —Throwing Ukraine to the wolves—Ukraine’s response to the Biden administration’s actions—Russia’s economic issues—Controlling rare earth minerals

2 months ago | thedispatch.com | Nathan J. Beacom |Will Rinehart |Michael Brown |Charles Hilu

When the phonograph was invented, the composer John Phillip Sousa was heartbroken. In a 1906 article on “The Menace of Mechanical Music,” he worried out loud that recording tools would reduce music from a matter of the heart and soul to a mere mechanical process. To us, this sounds ridiculous. It is clear that we have gained a great deal by the advancement of recording technology, which makes available to us a massive variety of beautiful music.

2 months ago | thedispatch.com | Greg Fournier |O. Alan Noble |Jonah Goldberg |Nathan J. Beacom

If I asked you to picture a philosopher, you might recall The Thinker, the bronze statue sculpted by Auguste Rodin that sits outside the Musée Rodin in Paris. The sculpture depicts a naked, muscular man sitting hunched over, his chin resting awkwardly on the back of his hand, apparently deep in thought.