Disunited Steelworkers and the U.S. Steel Deal
Before Americans broke for the Memorial Day weekend, President Donald Trump announced that he would allow a proposed investment by Japan-based Nippon Steel into the struggling company U.S. Steel that…
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On the Question of Right Fights: Factions on the Right
The conservative intellectual movement has been blown apart by a combination of factors, including the political, economic, and foreign policy failures of the second term of President George W. Bush…
On the Question of Right Fights: Dueling Manifestos
In 2022, a working group commissioned by the Edmund Burke Foundation, the organization behind the periodic National Conservatism Conferences, published “National Conservatism: A Statement of Principles.” The statement amounts to…
On the Question of Right Fights: National Conservatism at Arms
For their part, nine signers of the National Conservatism statement and 10 allies put forward a collection of essays denouncing the “generation of decay” in right-of-center politics and promoting a…
On the Question of Right Fights: Postliberals for American Liberalism
Sohrab Ahmari’s Tyranny, Inc. is not the “manifesto” of the Postliberal-Integralist faction, but Ahmari provides a glimpse into the motivations and prescriptions that faction would bring about if given power.
On the Question of Right Fights: “Grill Dad Republican”
What all this right-fighting ignores (on all sides) is the “Grill Dad Republican,” the ordinary voter who supports Republicans and professes some sort of conservatism. Exit polls suggest he (in…
Juice: Power Politics and the Grid
The Reliability Error
In his latest docuseries energy journalist Robert Bryce examines the dangerous destabilization of the American electricity grid due to flawed policy choices, such as an overreliance on unreliable, weather-dependent wind…
Juice: Power Politics and the Grid
The Commodity Error
Electricity is our most important infrastructure, analogous to roads and bridges, but even more critical to survival. To take just one example, water treatment plants and water pumps need power,…
Juice: Power Politics and the Grid
Victory?
The documentary concludes on a high note, ticking off several important and recent wins for pro-nuclear advocates. The right-leaning Progressive Conservative Party government of Ontario has decided to pursue an…