This is a war crime. It's no different than Nazi submarines machine-gunning survivors from a ship they just torpedoed.

The greatest TV scene in history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGFt...

Trump's socialism. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

Scandal brewing at George Mason University. www.chrisbrunet.com/p/the-karoly...

Excellent critique of both-sides journalism by Frank Bruni of the New York Times. Too bad his employer does it so often. Free article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...

I think it's interesting that no postwar Republican president or presidential nominee could get the party's nomination today--including Goldwater and Reagan. They were all much too far to the left. I have receipts. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/when-repub...

The secret history of when Republican presidents were moderate and sane. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/when-repub...

How billionaires took over American politics. Gift article. wapo.st/48nkqMN

The death of the moderate Republican. I wrote this essay in late 2014 but no one would publish it because no one believed me. open.substack.com/pub/brucebar...

Trouble in Libertarian Paradise? www.wsj.com/finance/u-s-...

Another good wedge issue for Democrats.

The rise and fall of Judeo-Christianism. religionnews.com/2025/11/18/o...

I have long been dissatisfied with internet links. Readers don't use them, and writers and editors are very lazy about using quality links. For one thing, they almost never use primary sources or even quality sources, relying instead on the first thing that shows up in a Google search.

Hong Kong was no libertarian paradise. The people had no political rights because it was a British colony. Its free market was imposed by fiat by a British bureaucrat. And the government was far more involved in the economy than libertarians acknowledge. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/can-libert...

Can libertarianism succeed in a democratic society? Hong Kong and Chile were both nondemocratic and less free market utopias than libertarians think. Whether Milei in Argentina succeeds remains to be seen. His mishandling of the exchange rate is a bad sign. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/can-libert...

Trump is really the true historical culmination of the right in America because he is a racist and a fascist. Reagan, ironically, was an aberration because he was neither. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...

If I ran Jersey Mike's, I'd hire that guy who threw a Subways sandwich at the cop. He could say if it had been a Jersey Mike's sub he would have held on to it. The ad writes itself.

My days at the Heritage Foundation in the 1980s--before the anarchists and Nazis took over. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/my-days-at...

How to End Democratic Infighting and Win Elections Using Wedge Issues. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/how-to-end...

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter. He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

I have compiled a history of the Tea Party in 2 parts. It's important because it plowed the ground for Trump and was fully absorbed by MAGA, which is why the Tea Party's history ends in 2015. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/why-the-po...

I hated the Tea Party from the moment it appeared because it consisted entirely of ignorant fools led by a few mendacious operators hoping to harness its power for their own ends. They plowed the ground for Trump. wapo.st/4nwGvwM

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

The US has elected an ignorant, immature imbecile as its leader. But other countries like Canada and Mexico elect highly skilled policymakers with PhDs from top universities. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/profession...

Even if it is against the law, who is going to stop it? Who would even have standing to sue? And SCOTUS will just rubber-stamp whatever Trump wants anyway.

Good data for Democrats. prri.org/research/tru...

Term limits are a good issue for Democrats. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...