Commentary

We are deterred. That’s the only possible way to read the confessions of Donald Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, who inexplicably vomited out a variety ...The post ‘They Got Us’ appeared first on Commentary Magazine. ... read more

When Shabbat services concluded at Beth Israel in Charlottesville, VA, last Saturday, Alan Zimmerman, president of the congregation, “advised congregants that it would be safer ...The post After Charlottesville, What’s Next? appeared first on Commentary Magazine. ... read more

In the second of this week’s COMMENTARY podcasts, the hosts try to wrap their heads around a series of events that defy logic. Why would ...The post Explaining the Inexplicable appeared first on Commentary Magazine. ... read more

The State Department on Tuesday released its annual International Religious Freedom Report. The grim upshot was that people of faith face persecution around the planet. ...The post When ‘Freethinkers’ Persecute the Faithful appeared first on Commentary Magazine. ... read more

When the president of the United States passed on his third opportunity to condemn unequivocally and without caveats Nazi sympathizers marching in his name, John ...The post What Trump Voters Heard appeared first on Commentary Magazine. ... read more

Completely lost in yesterday’s journalistic typhoon of virtue signaling after President Trump’s highly impolitic, but, as Powerline pointed out, basically accurate statement about the tragedy in ...The post A Smart Step Forward on Infrastructure appeared first on Commentary Magazine. ... read more

White nationalism is identity politics. Indeed, it is identity politics in its most primordial form. The leaders of the violent white supremacists in Virginia this ...The post The Alt-Right’s Victimhood Pimps appeared first on Commentary Magazine. ... read more

It took fewer than 12 hours for Donald Trump to effectively retract his condemnation of the white nationalists behind the weekend bloodshed in Charlottesville, Virginia. ...The post Trump Will Always Disappoint His Conservative Apologists appeared first on Commentary Magazine. ... read more

Controversies come and go so fast in the Trump administration that it’s all too easy to lose sight of individual issues. It is, therefore, worth ...The post The Proliferation of America’s Enemies appeared first on Commentary Magazine. ... read more

The only morally acceptable response to the events in Charlottesville is full-throated condemnation. Full stop. This is not the time for moral equivalencies. The barbarism ...The post We Are Cowards appeared first on Commentary Magazine. ... read more

You can choose to have whatever opinion you have on the president’s statement today condemning white supremacists, but it’s hard to believe he would have ...The post Explaining Trump’s Charlottesville Behavior appeared first on Commentary Magazine. ... read more

In the first COMMENTARY podcast of the week, I ask Noah Rothman and Abe Greenwald whether we are seeing a rise in extremist political violence ...The post Charlottesville and the American Crisis appeared first on Commentary Magazine. ... read more

Perhaps the best book I ever read was Natan Sharansky’s Fear No Evil, a memoir of his time in Soviet custody and an explanation of ...The post Resisting the Islamic State from Within appeared first on Commentary Magazine. ... read more