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The Biden Administration Did Not Take Place

Jan 19, 2025 | compactmag.com | Nathan Pinkoski

According to one recent poll, Joe Biden leaves office as the most unpopular president in modern history. Although he was blamed for everything from inflation to the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, Biden’s presidency was a cipher. It’s rather hard to pinpoint decisions for which Biden is directly responsible. Instead of blaming Biden for the past four years, we should consider an alternative thesis: Like the Gulf War, the Biden administration did not take place.
The Undoing of Britain

Jan 14, 2025 | compactmag.com | Nathan Pinkoski

In the postwar period, British elites launched a great multicultural experiment, then strove to prove that this system was compatible with Britain’s cherished liberal tradition. This gave birth to modern British exceptionalism: the faith that Britain’s blend of liberalism and multiculturalism uniquely solves the problems of building a multiethnic nation. Unlike Canada’s, Britain’s multiculturalism never had to reckon with a separatist movement.
Paleofuturism by Nathan Pinkoski

Jan 10, 2025 | firstthings.com | Nathan Pinkoski

Dawn's Early Light:Taking Back Washington to Save Americaby kevin d. robertsbroadside, 304 pages, $32 When Kevin Roberts became president of the Heritage Foundation in 2021, he set out to harmonize one of American conservatism’s flagship institutions with the electoral consequences of 2016. He steadily moved the think tank away from the old conservative fusionism and toward the conservative populism that voters wanted. Roberts also had the experience to tap into that populism’s deeper insights.
The End of Trudeau’s Pseudo-Caesarism | Nathan Pinkoski

Jan 10, 2025 | firstthings.com | Nathan Pinkoski

When Barack Obama first won the presidency in 2008, he ushered in a distinctive left-liberal aesthetic of personal power. Young, handsome, eloquent, and black, Obama was cool, and in his coolness, he managed to appeal to constituencies whose express priorities are often at odds: the young, progressive professional managerial class (PMC), as well as older centrist boomers.
Charles de Gaulle and the Revolution of 1962: Caesarism in Search of Republican Order

Dec 19, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Nathan Pinkoski

1 C.f. Charles de Gaulle, “Mémoires d’Espoir,” in Mémoires de Guerre et Mémoires d’Espoir (Paris: Plon, 2016), 632. 2 The definitive text on France’s long debate over executive power, which emphasizes continuity, is Nicholas Roussellier, La Force de Gouverner. Le pouvoir exécutif en France XIXe-XXIe siècles (Paris: Gallimard, 2015).
What Christians Can Learn from Postmodernism

Dec 4, 2024 | aaronrenn.com | Nathan Pinkoski

A reminder: through December 13 you can join my Member program at a big discount: 30% ($35/month) on Patreon, or 40% off ($360/year) on Substack. Members get all the benefits of being a paid subscriber, plus monthly interactive Zoom sessions, a new monthly Member-only podcast, and access to a private Slack group. Remember, the Member program includes paid subscriber benefits too. I am planning to paywall more content going forward, so now is a great time to sign up.
The End of the Churchill Myth

Sep 17, 2024 | compactmag.com | Nathan Pinkoski

Winston Churchill was one of the great men of the 20th century. As a statesman, his most significant achievement was preventing Hitler from winning World War II outright, which might have happened in 1940 without Britain’s determination to fight on. But painful as it may be for Churchill’s admirers to acknowledge, the prevailing mythology that has shaped public perception of him is running out of true believers.
Hannah and Her Resisters | Nathan Pinkoski

Sep 13, 2024 | firstthings.com | Nathan Pinkoski

We Are Free to Change the World:Hannah Arendts Lessons in Love and Disobedienceby lyndsey stonebridge hogarth, 368 pages, $32 One of the greatest beneficiaries of Donald Trump’s 2016 election was Hannah Arendt—or at least, her literary estate. In the first year of Trump’s presidency, sales of Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism soared by 1,000 percent.
How Macron Lost France

Jul 9, 2024 | compactmag.com | Nathan Pinkoski

Several weeks ago, Emmanuel Macron took the baffling decision to dissolve the French National Assembly and call early parliamentary elections. Not since Charles X in 1830 has a French head of state dissolved parliament under such unfavorable circumstances. Macron’s allies held a tenuous parliamentary majority since the last elections, held in 2022. The president’s approval ratings were at historic lows.
The Prince of Ancient Biographers

May 29, 2024 | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Roger Kimball |David Schaefer |John J. DiIulio |Nathan Pinkoski

Using history as a mirror I try by whatever means I can to improve my own life and to model it by the standard of all that is best in those whose lives I write. As a result I feel as though I were conversing and indeed living with them; by means of history I receive each one of them in turn, welcome and entertain them as guests and consider their stature and their qualities and select from their actions the most authoritative and the best with a view to getting to know them.