Goldberg: The millennial socialists are coming

In May, three young progressive women running for the state Legislature in Pennsylvania, each endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, won decisive primary victories over men heavil...

Blow: Immigration policies reflect white minority anxiety

Last week Pat Buchanan was on “The Laura Ingraham Show” to discuss the humanitarian crisis Donald Trump has created at the border by ripping children away from their parents. He w...

Brooks: Amnesty thugs rise in immigration debate

Ripping children away from their parents is the most cinematically cruel part of the Trump immigration policy, but it is not the most telling part. The most telling part is what happened to ...

Douthat: Choose the lesser cruelty on immigration

Let’s start with the easy part. The policy of separating children from their parents at the southern border, delivering them into a bureaucratic labyrinth while their fathers and mothers awa...

Brooks: Personalism is the philosophy we need

One of the lessons of a life in journalism is that people are always way more complicated than you think. We talk in shorthand about “Trump voters” or “social justice warriors,” but when you...

Friedman: Becoming Ugly America will make us less secure

First Donald Trump remade the Republican Party in his own image, and now he is trying to remake America the same way ‑ into a selfish, dishonest country with no close friends, totally unpred...

Brooks: Trump trades trust, rules for world of wolves

Occasionally you can see eternity in a speck of time, and occasionally you can see the logic of an entire historic moment in one event. So it was with the Group of 7 summit in Quebec. ...

Leonhardt: Trump tries to destroy Western alliance

The alliance between the United States and Western Europe has accomplished great things. It won two world wars in the first half of the 20th century. Then it expanded to include its former e...

Using marital advice to fix our political divide

Listening to people argue about politics these days is like overhearing people in a restaurant who are in a bad marriage. They’re always trying to use disagreements to establish superiority....

Blow: Trump leading Republican Party to ruin

In one way, Donald Trump’s presidency has been a raging success: He stole a political party. Among most of the people who we used to call Republicans, among the people who like Tr...

Brooks: The strange failure of the educated elite

Once upon a time, white male Protestants ruled the roost. You got into a fancy school if your father had gone to the fancy school. You got a job at a white-shoe law firm or climbed the corpo...

Bruni: Artistotle’s wrongful death as college majors shift

History is on the ebb. Philosophy is on the ropes. And comparative literature? Please. It’s an intellectual heirloom: cherished by those who can afford such baubles but disposable in the eye...