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View More NewsBooks had little to do with the populist uprising that swept Donald Trump into power in 2016 and 2024. But a cadre of right-wing writers and influencers have been constructing intellectual scaffolding around the MAGA phenomenon ever since. In Furious Minds, Laura K. Field explains and taxonomizes the effort to replace old-school Reagan-style conservatism with something more ruthless and muscular—but still grounded in ideas. Field divides the New Right into three rough factions: Claremonters (such as Michael Anton, the man behind the infamous “Flight 93 Election”essay published in the Claremont Review of Books), postliberals (such as Patrick Deneen, author of Why Liberalism Failed,…
In brief Bitcoin and the broader equity markets declined amid a global risk-off move, driven by a mix of macro and geopolitical factors. Next Fed chair speculation centers on former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh as the frontrunner following reports of a high-profile White House meeting on Thursday. A late-night Senate deal to fund the government has temporarily eased equity selloffs after crypto’s $1.75 billion liquidation event. A flurry of macroeconomic and geopolitical developments triggered a broad-based selloff across global financial markets on Thursday, sending Bitcoin to its lowest level in nine months.Bitcoin shed 7.4% over 24 hours, hitting a low…
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Video based on an essay written by law lecturer Guy Baldwin and narrated by Quillette’s Zoe Booth.In late 2025, Alaa Abd El-Fattah arrived in Britain as a UK citizen—an outcome that, to many observers, seemed difficult to reconcile with the liberal-democratic purpose of citizenship. This video essay uses the El-Fattah case as a case study in how modern European human-rights architecture can shape outcomes that elected governments did not clearly choose.Guy Baldwin traces the development of the European Convention on Human Rights from its post-war origins to the contemporary jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, with particular focus…
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Bitcoin dropped to the $88,000 level on Thursday as a rebound in the U.S. dollar and continued strength in commodities kept crypto trading in…
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from the wut? dept The travesty that is RFK Jr. in charge of American health and what he’s done to the CDC’s ACIP committee…
Yesterday, my Civitas Outlook column discussed Anti-Semitism and Anti-Christian Zionism on the right. The piece led off with Kevin Roberts’s infamous defense of Tucker Carlson, but…
The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday, a decision that capped a sharp reversal in market expectations that had once favored an…
Bitcoin price breakouts fail to hold due to insufficient bid-side liquidity. Glassnode analysis identifies the key metrics that are likely to mark the next…