Biden’s plan promises permanent decline | Bret Stephens / Syndicated columnist
It isn’t that the things the president wants aren’t worth having. Many of them are. Nor is the mammoth expense the main issue. The real...
Liberals for Ron DeSantis | Bret Stephens / Syndicated columnist
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis perhaps lifted his political prospect when 60 Minutes treated him unfairly.
Biden should finish the wall | Bret Stephens / Syndicated columnist
Walls also cannot address the root cause of our immigration crisis, which stems from a combination of social collapse south of the border and the...
America needs a third party that espouses true liberalism | Bret Stephens / Syndicated columnist
The new illiberalism is frightening. Everyone who has been bitten by it, left or right, is rediscovering how capacious the old liberal faith was, how...
Lincoln warned of the rise of the ‘mobocratic spirit’ | Bret Stephens / Syndicated columnist
One of the reasons the images of Jan. 6 were so grotesque is that they exposed how tissue thin and easily torn our sense of...
Trump and the damage done | Bret Stephens / Syndicated columnist
The catastrophe of Trump’s presidency doesn’t mainly lie in the visible damage it has caused. It’s in the invisible damage. Trump was a corrosive. What...
Groupthink foils the left | Bret Stephens / Syndicated columnist
The old liberal left paid attention to complexity, ambiguity, the gray areas. A sense of complexity induced a measure of doubt, including self-doubt.
For conservatives, this moment calls for a reckoning | Bret Stephens / Syndicated columnist
Conservatives never tried to check Trump's immorality. They rationalized, excused, enabled and ultimately celebrated it.
The encroachment of the unsayable | Bret Stephens / Syndicated columnist
Our compromised liberalism has left a generation of writers weighing their every word for fear that a wrong one could wreck their professional lives. The...
Wish a president well who doesn’t wish you well | Bret Stephens / Syndicated columnist
When everything is political, nothing is sacred — starting with human life. It’s a point the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century understood well. We...