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James Kirchick
James Kirchick is the author of The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age.
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner Is Vain. Trump Will Fit Right In.
The point of the dinner is to mingle journalists with stars. There’s no noble mission there for Trump to denigrate.
James Kirchick
Orbán’s Ouster Doesn’t Prove His Critics Wrong
Many dictatorships have ended peacefully, so the end of Orbán’s rule in Hungary isn’t proof he was never really taking the country in an authoritarian…
James Kirchick
The New ‘Conversion Therapy’ Is Making Gay Kids Trans
Adopting traits of the opposite sex is often a sign of same-sex attraction. But today, many children who do so are steered toward changing their sex.
James Kirchick
Cuba’s Useless Idiots
Viral content creators like Hasan Piker and Ryan Grim were invited for a weekend in a blacked-out Cuba so they could preach the glories of ‘la…
James Kirchick
Why Trump Is Obsessed with the Panama Canal
Reagan’s political career was floundering until he seized on this issue. ‘We bought it. We built it. It’s ours!’ Now, the president is reviving his…
James Kirchick
The American Right Is Buying What Viktor Orban Is Selling
Steve Bannon calls him 'one of the great moral leaders in this world.' How did Hungary's prime minister become the most formidable figure in American…
James Kirchick
'The First Amendment Created Gay America'
The radicals who dominate today’s gender-identity movement forget why we’ve come so far.
James Kirchick
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