John Ganz

Jesse Jackson's lost legacy.

Discussing effective historical analogies for the second Trump administration.

What's up at the NatC Conference.

Donald Trump seems stuck in the 80s.

Truths self-evident no more.

Trump mixes restoration with revolution—his reactionary modernism wooed Silicon Valley, but for everyone else, it signals looming repression.

Trump’s “Art of” trilogy may be full of willful exaggeration, but the books also reveal how the 1980s and 90s formed his dog-eat-dog worldview.

A little understood part of the New Deal.

Libertarianism, fascism, and democracy.

Donald Trump’s model of political leadership? The cigar-chomping, baseball-bat swinging Meade Esposito.

Using Murray Rothbard vs. Sam Francis to understand the next administration.

John Ganz’s “When the Clock Broke” renders the signal political battles of the present in an entirely new light.

In the early nineties, the country turned against the establishment and right-wing populists thrived. A new history reassesses their impact.

Meir Kahane's legacy in Israel and America.

On Samuel Moyn's Cold War liberalism.

Reflecting on Pat Buchanan's legacy.

The machine breaks down: A brief history of Tammany Hall.

Can the origins of today’s right be traced to the 1990s?

The fevered hunt for basic symbols.

What do the two events really have in common?

The Astor Place Opera House Riot of 1849 combined two of 19th-century America’s favorite pastimes: going to the theater and rioting.

How the world we live in already happened in 1992.

How an idealistic defense intellectual concluded that democracy is often its own worst enemy.

After the alt-right march on Charlottesville, Matt Lewis pointed out the existence of a “libertarian to alt-right pipeline."