Book Review
Defending Liberalism From the Right and Left
Gabriel Schoenfeld Tue, Jun 28, 2022, 8:01 AM
A review of Francis Fukuyama, “Liberalism and Its Discontents” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022).
Gabriel Schoenfeld, a senior fellow at the Niskanen Center, is a contributing editor at the American Purpose. He is the author of, among other books, Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law.
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totalitarianism
Is the United States Totalitarian?
Gabriel Schoenfeld Mon, May 23, 2022, 9:11 AM
A group of writers on the right contend that the United States has become dominated by “totalitarian” liberalism. They are wrong.
2022 Ukraine Crisis
Moral Equivalence and Ukraine
Gabriel Schoenfeld Wed, Apr 20, 2022, 11:04 AM
There is a growing chorus of voices here at home who continue to draw a moral equivalence between victim and aggressor, and worse.
The Ukraine Connection
Andrew C. McCarthy’s Unconvincing Defense of the President on Ukraine
Gabriel Schoenfeld Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 1:48 PM
Over at National Review, former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy has weighed in on Trump's Ukraine shenanigans and arrived at some out-of-the-box conclusions.
Book Reviews
A User’s Guide to Ending the Trump Presidency
Gabriel Schoenfeld Tue, Dec 4, 2018, 3:57 PM
PDF version.
A review of David Priess, “How to Get Rid of a President: History’s Guide to Removing Unpopular, Unable, or Unfit Chief Executives” (PublicAffairs, 2018)
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Book Reviews
A Tale of Two Narratives
Gabriel Schoenfeld Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 2:08 PM
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A review of Greg Miller, “The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy” (HarperCollins Publishers, 2018)
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Two narratives about Russian interference in the 2016 election are in direct competition with one another.
Executive Power
Obfuscating Obstruction
Gabriel Schoenfeld Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 4:31 PM
Thus far, my argument with former federal prosecutor and National Review columnist Andrew C. McCarthy has been about whether and how the president can be held to account for obstruction of justice. Having gone back and forth over the territory in several exchanges, it now raises a different question: Are the facts and the law as he states them?