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Bradley Gitz

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Why do more liberals write letters? They care more

Why do more liberals write letters? They care more

The editors of this paper frequently get asked why they publish so many letters that tilt leftward in a state where so many voters tilt rightward.

23.03.2026 10

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Good riddance, winter; you won’t be missed

I wrote a column last year about how summer had gone from my favorite to least favorite season.

16.03.2026 10

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Finally, a reckoning for evil by Iran, others

I have long argued that Donald Trump was just about the weakest candidate Republicans could have put up against the Democrats in 2016, 2020, and 2024;...

09.03.2026 10

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Because there’s never enough, more political nonsense

09.02.2026 8

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Night of Mar-a-Lago: A presidency in free-fall

02.02.2026 5

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Conservatives missing the point on monoculture in academe

26.01.2026 6

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Back to the jungle of making war instead of democracy

19.01.2026 9

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More intervention is called for, not less

12.01.2026 8

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Defending The Donald (Part II)

05.01.2026 10

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Defending The Donald (Part I)

29.12.2025 10

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Need a gift idea? How about some book recommendations?

22.12.2025 9

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In politics and elsewhere, dumb stuff happens … a lot

15.12.2025 7

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If Sept. 2 happened that way, a reckoning must come

08.12.2025 8

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Comparisons of Neville in 1938, Donald in 2025

01.12.2025 9

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OPINION | BRADLEY GITZ: Thoughts on Marx and MAGA (Part II)

Despite its smattering of electoral victories a few weeks ago, the Democratic Party has two problems that threaten its long-term viability. First, it...

26.11.2025 20

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Who’ll ditch the extremists first?

Last week's column argued that effective resistance to Donald Trump's authoritarianism requires effective reform on the part of the Democratic Party;...

04.11.2025 8

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Bad King Donald

As I drove past a couple of "No Kings" demonstrations last weekend, the same thought kept running through my mind: These aren't helping much, if at...

28.10.2025 6

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A political fantasy

One of our finest essayists, Joseph Epstein, had a column in The Wall Street Journal Oct. 10 in which he fantasized about a 2028 presidential race...

21.10.2025 8

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OPINION | BRADLEY GITZ: Free speech is costly

Charlie Kirk's murder and the response to it have provoked a needed debate over his life passion: free speech. That debate seems to have thus far...

14.10.2025 10

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They don’t like you

Democrats have two huge problems: 1. They don't much like the voters; and 2. the voters have begun to notice and are returning the favor. The...

07.10.2025 9

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Speech we don’t like

The most relevant question to ask when public figures engage in noxious behavior is whether the behavior was caused by ignorance or mendacity; whether...

30.09.2025 5

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Save us from politics

An admittedly strange confession: I've spent the vast majority of my life studying, teaching and writing about something I tend to dislike --...

23.09.2025 10

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Writing in Age of Trump

The extent to which Donald Trump dominates our news cycle and thus our politics was nicely captured over Labor Day weekend, when his absence from the...

16.09.2025 6

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