Jonathan Rauch's Blog

Postmodernism has redefined conservatism and dominates the movement. It���s on a tear���but it can be stopped...

America is becoming ungovernable because Christianity is failing. Yet Jesus is much more like Madison than MAGA. The Church can help heal our democracy���and itself...

It���s patrimonialism���where the leader owns the state. But it has a fatal flaw, which defenders of democracy must relentlessly exploit...

The first American to live to age 150 may already have been born. The concept of aging needs a fundamental rethink...

Liberalism is the greatest social technology ever invented. Yet too many liberals accept bogus charges against it. Enough, already...

The wars in Gaza and Ukraine show how the Axis of Resistance plans to exhaust and defeat the Western alliance. It might work...

The campaign to erase homosexuality was America���s purest experiment in totalitarianism. Yet we are forgetting it...and repeating it...

We know the plan. It's Orb��n, not Mussolini���and that���s more than scary enough...

She was the first woman on the Supreme Court and, alas, its last politician. Also, my neighbor growing up...

Nuclear power is at the threshold of a breakthrough. All the industry needs to do is get its act together...