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On a dark hour for the American right.
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The underlying assumption, held by leaders across the political spectrum, is that appealing to America’s loftiest ideals for reasons unrelated to partisan advantage is for suckers.
We reject that premise.
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We reject that premise.
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"Trump sees the world sort of like the way mafia bosses see the world." | Jonah Goldberg on The Dispatch Podcast
December 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"Trump sees the world sort of like the way mafia bosses see the world." | Jonah Goldberg on The Dispatch Podcast
"A decade of enabling Donald Trump’s unresting blitz of indecency is not something that is going to be forgotten—or should be forgotten—come Election Day 2028." | Kevin D. Williamson
https://thedispatch.com/article/rob-reiner-death-trump-republicans-sycophants/
https://thedispatch.com/article/rob-reiner-death-trump-republicans-sycophants/
The Sycophants Draw a Line
Donald Trump is, from time to time, ungracious on social media.
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December 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"A decade of enabling Donald Trump’s unresting blitz of indecency is not something that is going to be forgotten—or should be forgotten—come Election Day 2028." | Kevin D. Williamson
https://thedispatch.com/article/rob-reiner-death-trump-republicans-sycophants/
https://thedispatch.com/article/rob-reiner-death-trump-republicans-sycophants/
"Whether Trump has the legal authority to muscle states into shedding laws they have passed as AI has grown to prominence is questionable." | Charles Hilu & Jonathan Gibson
https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-executive-order-artificial-intelligence-state-preemption/
https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-executive-order-artificial-intelligence-state-preemption/
December 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"Whether Trump has the legal authority to muscle states into shedding laws they have passed as AI has grown to prominence is questionable." | Charles Hilu & Jonathan Gibson
https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-executive-order-artificial-intelligence-state-preemption/
https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-executive-order-artificial-intelligence-state-preemption/
"What they found in Bethlehem was not a star but the opposite of a star—a newborn child, warm and vulnerable and hungry and needing to be held and cared for." | Kevin D. Williamson
https://thedispatch.com/article/christmas-star-child-sign-christianity-darkness/
https://thedispatch.com/article/christmas-star-child-sign-christianity-darkness/
Many Sons to Glory
A star, and the opposite of a star.
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December 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"What they found in Bethlehem was not a star but the opposite of a star—a newborn child, warm and vulnerable and hungry and needing to be held and cared for." | Kevin D. Williamson
https://thedispatch.com/article/christmas-star-child-sign-christianity-darkness/
https://thedispatch.com/article/christmas-star-child-sign-christianity-darkness/
"Both parties are poised to nominate Senate candidates so flawed they have a chance of losing to the other." | Jonah Goldberg
https://thedispatch.com/article/crockett-paxton-texas-senate-primaries/
https://thedispatch.com/article/crockett-paxton-texas-senate-primaries/
December 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"Both parties are poised to nominate Senate candidates so flawed they have a chance of losing to the other." | Jonah Goldberg
https://thedispatch.com/article/crockett-paxton-texas-senate-primaries/
https://thedispatch.com/article/crockett-paxton-texas-senate-primaries/
"A man who can’t restrain his impulse to mock parents murdered by their child has something deeply, alarmingly wrong with him." | Nick Catoggio in Boiling Frogs
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/boilingfrogs/donald-trump-susie-wiles-rob-reiner-post/
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/boilingfrogs/donald-trump-susie-wiles-rob-reiner-post/
December 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"A man who can’t restrain his impulse to mock parents murdered by their child has something deeply, alarmingly wrong with him." | Nick Catoggio in Boiling Frogs
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/boilingfrogs/donald-trump-susie-wiles-rob-reiner-post/
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/boilingfrogs/donald-trump-susie-wiles-rob-reiner-post/
December 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Democrats Are Thrilled That Trump Will Hit the Midterms Trail: The president tried the same strategy in 2018, and the GOP lost the House | David M. Drucker
December 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Democrats Are Thrilled That Trump Will Hit the Midterms Trail: The president tried the same strategy in 2018, and the GOP lost the House | David M. Drucker
We fact checked Jonah Goldberg's official bio on The Dispatch Podcast
December 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We fact checked Jonah Goldberg's official bio on The Dispatch Podcast
"Something has changed in the practical environment that has eroded conservatism’s ability to conserve itself" | Matthew J. Franck
https://thedispatch.com/article/maga-right-intellect-trump-ideas-extremism/
https://thedispatch.com/article/maga-right-intellect-trump-ideas-extremism/
Conservatism Can’t Conserve Itself
How did we end up with the MAGA intellectuals?
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December 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"Something has changed in the practical environment that has eroded conservatism’s ability to conserve itself" | Matthew J. Franck
https://thedispatch.com/article/maga-right-intellect-trump-ideas-extremism/
https://thedispatch.com/article/maga-right-intellect-trump-ideas-extremism/
"Nick Fuentes’ coalition is surprisingly diverse." | Surya Gowda
https://thedispatch.com/article/nonwhite-groypers-fuentes-antisemitism-racism-malkin/
https://thedispatch.com/article/nonwhite-groypers-fuentes-antisemitism-racism-malkin/
The Curious Case of Nonwhite Groypers
Nick Fuentes’ coalition is surprisingly diverse.
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December 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"Nick Fuentes’ coalition is surprisingly diverse." | Surya Gowda
https://thedispatch.com/article/nonwhite-groypers-fuentes-antisemitism-racism-malkin/
https://thedispatch.com/article/nonwhite-groypers-fuentes-antisemitism-racism-malkin/
"[Trump's] ties to hostile bidders for Warner Bros. Discovery raise questions about the politicization of antitrust." | Alex Demas
https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-warner-bros-netflix-paramount-antitrust/
https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-warner-bros-netflix-paramount-antitrust/
December 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"[Trump's] ties to hostile bidders for Warner Bros. Discovery raise questions about the politicization of antitrust." | Alex Demas
https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-warner-bros-netflix-paramount-antitrust/
https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-warner-bros-netflix-paramount-antitrust/
The Bondi Beach Terror Attack: Jewish Australians question their safety after gunmen targeted a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney | Morning Dispatch
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/morning/the-bondi-beach-terror-attack/
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/morning/the-bondi-beach-terror-attack/
The Bondi Beach Terror Attack
Jewish Australians question their safety after gunmen targeted a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney.
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December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The Bondi Beach Terror Attack: Jewish Australians question their safety after gunmen targeted a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney | Morning Dispatch
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/morning/the-bondi-beach-terror-attack/
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/morning/the-bondi-beach-terror-attack/
Congratulations to Max for being last week's Dispawtcher of the Week, and thank you to Dispatch member Curtis Edmonds for your submission.
Submit nominations by filling out the submission link in the G-File! Reminder: You must be a Dispatch member to participate.
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December 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Congratulations to Max for being last week's Dispawtcher of the Week, and thank you to Dispatch member Curtis Edmonds for your submission.
Submit nominations by filling out the submission link in the G-File! Reminder: You must be a Dispatch member to participate.
Submit nominations by filling out the submission link in the G-File! Reminder: You must be a Dispatch member to participate.
"In our current societal context, the existence of these tableaus is more countercultural and out of the ordinary than an overbearing imposition from the dominant religion." | Mark Kendall
https://thedispatch.com/article/christmas-rudolph-vargas-california/
https://thedispatch.com/article/christmas-rudolph-vargas-california/
America ‘Looking for Jesus’
What a decades-old Advent display could teach the U.S.
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December 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"In our current societal context, the existence of these tableaus is more countercultural and out of the ordinary than an overbearing imposition from the dominant religion." | Mark Kendall
https://thedispatch.com/article/christmas-rudolph-vargas-california/
https://thedispatch.com/article/christmas-rudolph-vargas-california/
"The tariffs are increasing uncertainty. It's not just a tax on consumption. It's also a tax on risk taking." | Jonah Goldberg explains on CNN's The Arena
December 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"The tariffs are increasing uncertainty. It's not just a tax on consumption. It's also a tax on risk taking." | Jonah Goldberg explains on CNN's The Arena
"Their aim is to borrow the logic of left-wing identity politics and simply assert that their opinions and agendas are more legitimate solely because of an accident of birth." | Jonah Goldberg in G-File
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/gfile/heritage-americans-patriotism-nationalism-vance/
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/gfile/heritage-americans-patriotism-nationalism-vance/
December 20, 2025 at 1:23 AM
"Their aim is to borrow the logic of left-wing identity politics and simply assert that their opinions and agendas are more legitimate solely because of an accident of birth." | Jonah Goldberg in G-File
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/gfile/heritage-americans-patriotism-nationalism-vance/
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/gfile/heritage-americans-patriotism-nationalism-vance/
The Man-Children of the Revolution: Zohran Mamdani, Luigi Mangione, and the gentle parenting of violence | Tal Fortgang
https://thedispatch.com/article/mamdani-mangione-children-jews-murder-moral-intuitions/
https://thedispatch.com/article/mamdani-mangione-children-jews-murder-moral-intuitions/
The Man-Children of the Revolution
Zohran Mamdani, Luigi Mangione, and the gentle parenting of violence.
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December 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The Man-Children of the Revolution: Zohran Mamdani, Luigi Mangione, and the gentle parenting of violence | Tal Fortgang
https://thedispatch.com/article/mamdani-mangione-children-jews-murder-moral-intuitions/
https://thedispatch.com/article/mamdani-mangione-children-jews-murder-moral-intuitions/
"I have a sense that the Trump movement already is over, and that what we are seeing today is only its death twitches before rigor mortis starts setting in." | Kevin D. Williamson
https://thedispatch.com/article/pareto-improvement-punishment-trump-economics/
https://thedispatch.com/article/pareto-improvement-punishment-trump-economics/
Pareto Punishment
The Trump movement in its death throes.
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December 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"I have a sense that the Trump movement already is over, and that what we are seeing today is only its death twitches before rigor mortis starts setting in." | Kevin D. Williamson
https://thedispatch.com/article/pareto-improvement-punishment-trump-economics/
https://thedispatch.com/article/pareto-improvement-punishment-trump-economics/
Did the Islamic State Ever Go Away? Seven years after Trump declared victory over ISIS, the terrorist group continues to inspire attacks worldwide | Morning Dispatch
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/morning/did-the-islamic-state-ever-go-away/
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/morning/did-the-islamic-state-ever-go-away/
Did the Islamic State Ever Go Away?
Seven years after Trump declared victory over ISIS, the terrorist group continues to inspire attacks worldwide.
thedispatch.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Did the Islamic State Ever Go Away? Seven years after Trump declared victory over ISIS, the terrorist group continues to inspire attacks worldwide | Morning Dispatch
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/morning/did-the-islamic-state-ever-go-away/
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/morning/did-the-islamic-state-ever-go-away/
"The conflict not only set the course for U.S. global dominance; it helped establish the model for how future generations of Americans would envision that leadership role." | Charlotte Lawson in TheNext250
https://thedispatch.com/next-250/spanish-american-war-moral-military/
https://thedispatch.com/next-250/spanish-american-war-moral-military/
December 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"The conflict not only set the course for U.S. global dominance; it helped establish the model for how future generations of Americans would envision that leadership role." | Charlotte Lawson in TheNext250
https://thedispatch.com/next-250/spanish-american-war-moral-military/
https://thedispatch.com/next-250/spanish-american-war-moral-military/
Are Electric Vehicles Finished? American automakers are canceling EV plans while Chinese competitors continue to surge ahead globally | Morning Dispatch
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/morning/are-electric-vehicles-finished/
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/morning/are-electric-vehicles-finished/
Are Electric Vehicles Finished?
American automakers are canceling EV plans while Chinese competitors continue to surge ahead globally.
thedispatch.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Are Electric Vehicles Finished? American automakers are canceling EV plans while Chinese competitors continue to surge ahead globally | Morning Dispatch
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/morning/are-electric-vehicles-finished/
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/morning/are-electric-vehicles-finished/
"If we can admit that justice for both the surrogates and the babies they carry demands something more than mere acquiescence toward the demands of the market, we could envision meaningful reforms." | Patrick T. Brown
https://thedispatch.com/article/surrogacy-ivf-abortion-freedom-reproduction/
https://thedispatch.com/article/surrogacy-ivf-abortion-freedom-reproduction/
The Logical End of ‘Reproductive Freedom’
Barring legislative change, surrogacy’s dystopian edge cases will keep happening.
thedispatch.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"If we can admit that justice for both the surrogates and the babies they carry demands something more than mere acquiescence toward the demands of the market, we could envision meaningful reforms." | Patrick T. Brown
https://thedispatch.com/article/surrogacy-ivf-abortion-freedom-reproduction/
https://thedispatch.com/article/surrogacy-ivf-abortion-freedom-reproduction/
"Repealing the military force authorization for the Gulf and Iraq wars is not just symbolic." | Charles Hilu
https://thedispatch.com/article/defense-bill-1991-2002-authorization-military-force-repeal/
https://thedispatch.com/article/defense-bill-1991-2002-authorization-military-force-repeal/
December 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"Repealing the military force authorization for the Gulf and Iraq wars is not just symbolic." | Charles Hilu
https://thedispatch.com/article/defense-bill-1991-2002-authorization-military-force-repeal/
https://thedispatch.com/article/defense-bill-1991-2002-authorization-military-force-repeal/
"They see [Trump] distracted by a whole bunch of things that make it feel like he’s not actually focused on the concerns of those median voters who cared about affordability." | Jonah Goldberg explains on CNN's The Arena
December 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"They see [Trump] distracted by a whole bunch of things that make it feel like he’s not actually focused on the concerns of those median voters who cared about affordability." | Jonah Goldberg explains on CNN's The Arena