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.

American Despotism: The Historic Roots of the Constitutional Crisis Communists have received protective treatment while anti-communists have been vilified. by Newt Gingrich ...

The Declaration of Independence turns 249 years old on Friday. While it famously said “that all men are created equal,” it ...

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 ...

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.

The reemergence of despotism as a political force is attributable to American society falling prey to apathy, the growing belief that citizens' voices don't matter, and a sense of complacency that ...

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 ...

Opinion: Why Trump’s Premature Despotism in LA Should Terrify Us All. Story by David Rothkopf • 1d. President Donald Trump is so eager to be a king he can’t contain himself.

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.

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 ...

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 ...