History suggests that, when citizens come to deeply distrust their country’s institutions, the cancer of political degeneration may be taking hold. In America, cynicism appears to have metastasized to ...

More than five years ago, I wrote in these pages of a growing trend on the left toward compelled speech — the forcing of citizens to repeat approved views and values. It is an all-too-familiar pattern ...

Despotism has become our new normal. We have become desensitized to government brutality, accustomed to government corruption, and unfazed by the government’s assaults on our freedoms. Subscribe to ...

The Biden administration’s excessive use of executive orders, regulatory rulemaking power, and lawfare against state governments and other “intermediary institutions”; its dictatorial pandemic decrees ...

Editor’s Note: This piece on race and the civil rights movement is the fourth in a series by Speaker Gingrich on American despotism. Listen to The American Spectator’s exclusive interview with the ...

We are now so jaded about the Affordable Care Act that it has lost the ability to shock us. News of its 38th delay in implementation is stirring up outrage from all the predictable quarters, but ...

Uttam Khobragade is a retired bureaucrat, Dalit activist and member of All India Congress Committee (AICC). The prevalence of elected despotism in many democracies raises doubts about the efficacy of ...

Claims of Morocco's exceptionalism during the Arab Spring now ring hollow as protests spread in the face of elite policies that deny dignity to the majority On Friday, 28 October 2016, a tragic fatal ...

An Introduction to “The New Statism and the Assault on Individual Liberty,” a symposium organized jointly by The New Criterion and London’s Social Affairs Unit. Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely ...

Harvard University Press, 206 pp. Now liberal democracies are in retreat, damaged from within by racial supremacists and authoritarian demagogues, and challenged on the world stage by autocrats, ...

Like the Covid shutdowns and the riots of 2020 before them, the Hamas atrocities of October 7 revealed the ongoing moral and political catastrophe of the West. Hamas initiated a war against Israel ...