Virginia Heffernan

He seemed like such a fiercely uncompromised critic of elites. But maybe it’s always been more complicated than that.

The philosopher and liberal politician Benedetto Croce laid it out in (where else?) The New Republic in 1937, galvanizing his Italian comrades.

Well, it has happened here. The “hysterical” f-word brandishers were right.

Middle-class white women, once seen as politically complacent, are enraged. And MAGA seems terrified.

America’s elite have spent the last five decades convinced they were entitled to molest women and children with abandon. And there’s still much to learn about it.

The new head of CBS News interviewed the late Charlie Kirk’s wife, who turned a question about antisemitic violence into a sermon on Christian Zionism.

The unfolding MAGA battle over Turning Point USA is chilling, disgusting—and a lot of fun to watch.

When left-leaning Democrats complain about corporate influence, it’s not a “purity test.” It’s a demand for a better politics.

The shock announcement didn’t surprise everyone. She’s been tilting away from MAGA and toward America First for quite some time.

They poured mountains of dollars into trying to find ways to stop socialist Katie Wilson. But to younger voters, their money stinks.

Yes, they have real ideological differences. But they’re all out there hustling. And hustle is what the Democrats need right now.

Yes, he’s done enormous damage. But he’s unpopular, the courts are checking him, and freako-extremists like Curtis Yarvin have thrown in the towel.

Meet John Reid, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Virginia. There’s a lot to learn.

That’s right. For the Enhanced Games, athletes are encouraged to dope it up to their hearts’ content. Look out, here comes the master race.

We still don’t know Tyler Robinson’s motivation. But we know we need to learn about the Charlie Kirk–Nick Fuentes Armageddon, dammit.

In the American political lexicon, whites are “working-class” and people of color are “poor.” The Maine Democratic candidate for Senate knows otherwise.

Trump’s executive order against “woke” artificial intelligence is really his and his movement’s admission that reality has a liberal bias.

Pam Bondi, Tulsi Gabbard, Linda McMahon, and Kristi Noem are the new model of right-wing womanhood. God help us.

The press acts as if “higher education” = Harvard. But a more interesting and gutsier stand is being taken in the heartland by schools that have a lot more going for them than football.

For real. The podcast by Ben Meiselas and his brothers regularly outdraws Joe Rogan’s. Their secret weapon? Reason. Imagine!