The American Mind's Weekly Digest

SALVOS

The Gathering Typhoon

A. E. Clark

The smoke rising over Kyiv reminds us that the international order is subject to nonconsensual revision, and that the revisionists most likely to mount a violent challenge are nationalist dictatorships with a sense of grievance. 

Trump's Virtues

Thomas D. Klingenstein

I regularly ask Republican politicians what they think of Donald Trump. The most frequent response is some version of, “I like his policies but don’t like the rest of him.” But this formulation gets it almost backwards.

MEMOS

The Court-Packing Coup

Ian Huyett

Biden’s Commission has quietly laid down the legal-theoretical groundwork for a totalitarian regime in which progressives would be empowered to repress their enemies unencumbered by the rule of law.