Daniel McCarthy
Daniel McCarthy is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review and editor-at-large of The American Conservative.
Latest Articles
How Trump cut Antifa’s global leftist lifeline — and struck a blow for democracy
September 1, 2026 | 5:00amGoing after the foreign enablers of far-left violence and threats is a commonsense step in defending the very principle of self-government.
Hasan Piker’s Charlie Kirk hatefest is a new low — and Democrats descend along with him
August 25, 2026 | 6:00amHasan Piker's audience is a Democratic audience, and the party wants his support, even if its candidates won’t take responsibility for what Piker actually believes.
Democrats’ prez-primary scheme is a last-ditch effort to hold off the DSA
August 18, 2026 | 5:00amThe fix is in: The Democratic establishment thinks it’s hit upon a strategy both for keeping control of the party out of the DSA's hands and wresting the South away...
How Democrats’ DEI kept homebuyers in the dark about crime and schools
August 12, 2026 | 6:00amInterfering with homebuying was a first-week priority for Biden’s administration.
Comical case of Cambridge U.’s fibbing prof tests academia’s deep DEI delusions
August 4, 2026 | 5:00amThere’s no limit to how far DEI will go if left unchecked: It finds nothing too ridiculous to be laughed out of consideration.
DSA radicals trying to centralize power by scrapping the Senate are completely ignorant of our history
July 29, 2026 | 7:28pmThe Democratic Socialists of America's revolutionary plans call for, among other things, abolishing the US Senate and making the executive branch and the Supreme Court subservient to the House of...
Democrats can’t stop Kamala Harris — and it’s got the GOP giddy
July 21, 2026 | 2:00pmDemocrat insiders know Kamala Harris is a terrible candidate, but the party they built can’t tell her no.
Health care socialism is transforming America’s workforce — for the worse
July 15, 2026 | 5:00amThis is the 21st-century twist on socialism: Instead of government owning industry outright, it forces industries to remodel themselves as Washington directs.
Free the Smithsonian — and our history — from America-hating elites
July 6, 2026 | 6:59pmThe leaders of the Smithsonian Institution are trying to lay a guilt trip on the whole country, using taxpayer dollars to “problematize” the history they're supposed to preserve.
Bill Maher got the award, but Trump’s free-speech impact is the real prize
June 29, 2026 | 9:32pmIn Trump’s Washington, a rebel like Bill Maher can be given his due — which can’t be said in precincts that cultural liberals control.
Today’s greatest threat to academic freedom is . . . academia
June 16, 2026 | 1:59pmThe American Association of University Professors is fighting against all attempts by states and the federal government to restore sanity and fairness to our campuses.
Pope Leo’s migrant message is naïve — and dangerously political
June 9, 2026 | 7:00amLeo XIV is investing the Church’s future in a leftist mirage — while in reality the left will only become more anti-Christian and pro-Islamic over the years and decades to...
Canada’s mass-graves scam reveals the high price of media bias
June 2, 2026 | 3:16pmMedia outlets have let progressive politics shape the stories they tell. And that often leads to violence.
Vatican tech flop: Pope Leo’s AI crusade needs Trump — not the UN
May 25, 2026 | 10:24pmLeo compares AI to the Tower of Babel, yet that image applies at least as well to the UN.
How the GOP’s surprising unity boosts its midterm odds
May 19, 2026 | 7:00amVoters don't behave the way they used to, and Trump has remade his party into one that can win in an era of close elections.
How Democrats’ rage over Virginia gerrymander exposes their larger contempt for democracy
May 12, 2026 | 5:45amVirginia Democrats are doing an unwitting service to the whole country — by revealing just how hostile their party is to the most essential checks and balances.
Why America’s students are choosing self-censorship
May 4, 2026 | 9:33pmGeorge Orwell never imagined that young people in a free society would one day willingly impose orthodoxy on their peers — and on themselves.
Our radical universities are turning out an army of educated assassins
April 28, 2026 | 6:55pmThe effect of higher education is now the opposite of what it should be, moving graduates, and especially graduate students, in the direction of radicalism.
Republicans toy with amnesty — and risk destroying their own party
April 20, 2026 | 7:04pmReal immigration enforcement is the defining issue of the GOP in our time — so the mystery is why any Republican would boost a bill like this.
Trump’s spat with Pope Leo is a bad political bet as midterms loom
April 13, 2026 | 6:21pmWhen a pope and a president work together for peace, without compromising with evil, they can achieve what’s otherwise impossible.