OPINION: Despotism has become our new normal. We have become desensitized to government brutality, accustomed to government corruption, and unfazed by the government’s assaults on our freedoms.

This “American Despotism” series in The American Spectator will provide a clear history of the weaponization of government, which has violated the Constitution and corrupted the rule of law.

We are now so jaded about the Affordable Care Act that it has lost the ability to shock us. News of its 38th delay in implementation is stirring up outrage from all the predictable quarters, but ...

Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli frames the war with Iran as a fight for all of Western civilization. ‘But if we need to fight this war alone, we will,’ he says.

(READ MORE from Newt Gingrich: American Despotism) Reagan was responding to the cultural war that exploded throughout the 1960s and continued into the first years of the 1970s.

Despotism Goes Global. Support for Hamas’s October atrocities flows from opposition to the West itself. / Public Safety, Politics and Law, The Social Order. January 08, 2024 / Share / Eye on the News ...

America’s Despotism of Debt Pedestrians sit at a bus shelter where an electronic billboard and a poster display the current U.S. National debt per person and as a nation, in Washington, D.C ...

Aristocratic Sympathy for Despotism. Share full article. Sept. 18, 1861. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from September 18, 1861, Page 4 Buy Reprints.

Imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi paid tribute to the determination of the Iranian people to “dismantle” the “despotism and obstruction” of the Islamic Republic’s regime in ...

The prevalence of elected despotism in many democracies raises doubts about the efficacy of this system of governance since the inception of the institution of the ‘state’. The concept of the ...

A democratic despotism? Such a thing has to be a contradiction in terms. Not so, thought Tocqueville. In fact, he speculated that the reach of such a regime might well be more extensive than any ...