Michael Brendan Dougherty
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What If Ron DeSantis Is Less Crazy Than Donald Trump?
What if voters want competence in the execution of policy and administration, and they want someone who demonstrates self-possession? If all that were true, and we turned our eyes to Ron DeSantis, what would we expect to see? → Read More
Why I’m Proud to Work Here
National Review was founded to expound upon the “eternal verities” -- the big truths about individuals, institutions, society, and even God. Along the way that has also implied the duty to speak up for unpopular truths. → Read More
Hong Kongers Continue the Fight for Freedom . . . in the U.K.
It’s a bitter pill, but the free world ain’t what it once was. → Read More
Quelling the Banshees
What I loved and loathed about The Banshees of Inisherin. → Read More
The Adverse Effects of Lying during a Pandemic
But what public-health experts needed to do during the pandemic was to be more honest about the limits of their knowledge in an evolving crisis, and be more liberal with the public and with its own critics. → Read More
What Have We Bargained for in Ukraine?
The dangers of the conflict are much greater than hawks would have us believe. → Read More
The Sympathy of Dogs
Dogs perform a feat of sympathy no human companion could possibly manage. → Read More
So, What Did You Get?
Our house is lucky to have three children that are all within that magical age range for Christmas, so seeing them react to gifts was gift enough for me. → Read More
Too Much Zelensky Talk, Not Enough about American Interests
Focusing on how Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky dresses and brands himself is a pitiful distraction from the conversation that needs to happen. → Read More
Trump's NFT Sale and His Political Future
If Trump starts making an effort to identify the issues that matter, he might ditch the grievances about 2020. → Read More
America’s Prisons Aren’t Fit for Purpose
Many prison guards and prisoners have internalized the view — common in our culture — that prisons are supposed to be madhouses of criminality, neglect, and disorder. → Read More
New Phase of the War; Danger Still Lurks
Talk of nuclear warfare in Ukraine started to fade as Russia consolidated its positions and shifted to a new phase of the war, in which it is destroying Ukraine's civic infrastructure. → Read More
Being a Conservative or Republican Has Always Been Cringey
But you can’t get away from it just by joining the other side. → Read More
Vindicated Years Later
Brexit throws the economic regulation of Northern Ireland to the EU — in which Northern Ireland has no part at all. → Read More
Late Hit Tracker
The New York Times publishes a hit piece on J. D. Vance. → Read More
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Netflix film version of the classic WWI novel is brilliantly shot and conceived. → Read More
The Coming Fight over Trumpism: Charisma or Policy?
Is Arizona's Kari Lake the proof that political charisma is more important than the right policy agenda? → Read More
‘There is nothing beyond our capacity’
I predict our leaders will continue their general drift toward rewriting America's strategy as a globalized culture war against conservative-coded autocracies. → Read More
Vladimir Putin & Russia: Western Policy Goals Misguided
Realism means admitting that our leadership is unworthy, deluded, and stupid. → Read More
The Myth of a Light Footprint
American casualties in Afghanistan were low and “sustainable” in our last years there because the casualties suffered by the Afghan National Army were high and unsustainable. → Read More