Jim Antle, the magazine’s executive editor, brings to life the pages of the Washington Examiner magazine in the show Inside Scoop. Each episode features exclusive insight from the article authors and expert analysis.
Antle gives his analysis on the men who gave rise to modern conservative commentators and whether their views are still prominent today. Before Fox News, before Washington Examiner, and before Rush Limbaugh, William F. Buckley Jr. spearheaded the development of modern American conservatism.
“Buckley was known for his wit, his intellect, his ability to speak to hostile audiences,” Antle said.
Buckley’s collaboration with Frank Meyer blended economic and social conservatism, which shaped politics from the 1960s to the 1980s, including Ronald Reagan’s presidency.
“Reagan, Buckley, and Meyer still leave a lasting imprint on conservative politics today,” Antle said, adding things seem to be changing with a new head of the party. “President Donald Trump is seen as a figure shaking up the modern American Conservative Movement once again.”
Next on the show, Antle sits down with Washington Examiner’s commentary editor Conn Carroll to discuss the cover article on why blue-state cities are failing. The article was inspired by a chart regularly published by Brookings, the liberal think tank.
“The point of this chart is to try to undercut whenever a Republican wins,” Carroll said. “To say, all of the GDP in the country is really produced by the smart, hip, progressive, democratic areas.”
However, Carroll notes if the same chart is compared by state, it spells out a very different story. Big states, like Texas and Florida, are producing tons of GDP along with California and New York.
“It would be much more even,” Carroll explains. “But when you look at the cities that are in blue states, those cities are falling behind, and it’s the cities in red states that are really succeeding.”
Carroll attributed the cities in blue states stagnation to high costs of living, lack of job growth, and poor public order.
“New York and Los Angeles have actually lost population over the last 10 years,” Carroll said. “Red states, as I mentioned, have all been growing by 10%, 15%, 20%.”
Our in-depth report this week examines what the last world war tells us about the next one. The Second World War ended eight decades ago this summer, but its specter looms large today. The war ended empires, upended the global order, and changed the course of the 20th century. Eighty years later, it still has much to teach us.
To a great extent, the failure to predict war is a failure of imagination. Both Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Iranian proxies attacking Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, are evidence of America’s collapsed deterrence and intelligence.
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“The anniversary of the end of World War II should serve as a reminder of the costs of great powers in conflict,” Sean Durns writes. “Let us hope that we never have to pay them again. But let’s do so knowing that hope itself isn’t a strategy. On that much, history is clear.”
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