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Jacobin Confusion on Social Security

Debate over Social Security, scant though it is, usually and understandably focuses on its insolvency. I recently tried to call attention to some of...

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National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

The Demographics of Democratic Candidates

Some Democrats have concluded from recent election results that they ought to nominate more heterosexual, Christian white men — and especially that...

03.04.2026 8

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

The International Criminal Court’s Double Standard

Eugene Kontorovich asks a good question: Shouldn’t the ICC be taking up Iran’s attacks on civilians? Some might say the ICC isn’t involved...

02.04.2026 8

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

The Passage of Oil and the Price of Oil

From last night’s speech: The United States imports almost no oil through the Hormuz Strait and won’t be taking any in the future. We don’t need...

02.04.2026 5

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Trump’s Speech Didn’t Make the Case

Americans don’t need convincing that the Iranian regime is a menace. They need convincing that what President Trump is doing makes sense. Last...

02.04.2026 6

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Trump’s hall-of-mirrors speech

Trump’s hall-of-mirrors speech
02.04.2026 10

Washington Post

Ramesh Ponnuru

Birthright Citizenship: The Question of Intent

One of the most common arguments against the idea that the Constitution mandates birthright citizenship, even for the children of illegal immigrants,...

01.04.2026 5

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

False Prophecies About Dobbs

When Dobbs came down, we were told that maternal mortality would increase and ob-gyns would run away from red states. Pro-abortion activists are still...

30.03.2026 8

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Christopher Caldwell vs. President Trump

A Chris Caldwell article is always a stimulating read, and that includes the new one that MBD has already flagged declaring the Trump movement over....

20.03.2026 10

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

The Return of Medicare for All

Several candidates from the left wing of the Democratic Party are running on the idea. In the Washington Post, I write that its deficiencies become...

20.03.2026 10

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

A Republican Failure

I spoke on a panel hosted by Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America yesterday, and Frank Cannon, the organization’s chief political strategist, asked a...

20.03.2026 10

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Medicare-for-all makes a comeback

20.03.2026 30

Washington Post

Ramesh Ponnuru

Talarico’s Nonbinary Nonsense

The comment of the Democrats’ Texas Senate nominee that has drawn the most flak is probably that “God is nonbinary.” He made the comment in a...

16.03.2026 20

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Poisonous Falsehood from Ramin Fatehi

Jim Geraghty subjects the chief prosecutor for Norfolk to well-deserved criticism for his rant yesterday about how “we live in a country where...

13.03.2026 20

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

The myth of absolute parental rights

12.03.2026 20

Washington Post

Ramesh Ponnuru

Commanders-in-Chief Courageous

Lee Smith voices a sentiment I’ve seen a lot these past few weeks: The fact is that no one before Trump had the courage to attack. Iran has been...

12.03.2026 20

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Parents, Governments, and Social Media

Stronger minimum-age laws for social media — we already have a federal law dating back to 1998; it’s just honored mostly in the breach — have...

12.03.2026 20

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

The State of the Economy

I have been more positive about it than Jim Geraghty, although I acknowledge it’s a mixed picture — and that between when I wrote and when he did,...

11.03.2026 20

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

New York Times Reporters Downplay Talarico’s Radicalism

I’ve already said my piece about James Talarico’s attempt to put a left-wing gloss on Christianity and why I think it nearly self-evident that it...

09.03.2026 10

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Indiana Judge Uses Religious Freedom to Defend Abortion

Judge Christina Klineman has found that a sincere religious belief that unborn children are not persons with a right to life defeats Indiana’s law...

06.03.2026 20

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

What Texas will discover about James Talarico

04.03.2026 20

Washington Post

Ramesh Ponnuru

Talarico in Theory and Practice

The Democratic nominee for senator from Texas wants to win conservative and moderate voters — but without giving them any ground on policy. At the...

04.03.2026 20

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

How to Avoid Thinking About a Better Retirement System

I suggested the other day that nobody would design Social Security the way it is if we were starting from scratch, and that it’s worth thinking not...

28.02.2026 20

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Saving Social Security Is the Wrong Goal

How to save Social Security is the wrong question, I write at the Washington Post. It’s even backward, in that it focuses on the program rather than...

25.02.2026 20

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Don’t save Social Security

25.02.2026 10

Washington Post

Ramesh Ponnuru

Learning from TV

Finished a season of a British murder show last night, and in just six episodes it packed a lot of powerful lessons: — Brexit supporters beat their...

24.02.2026 20

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Today’s Dubious Conventional Wisdom on Trade

It’s the uncontroverted remarks, the ones that barely elicit any comment, that tell you the intellectual fashions of the moment. Twenty years ago,...

23.02.2026 30

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

They Hate Him, Really Hate Him

New Gallup findings confirm what we already knew: “Democrats’ views of national conditions throughout the first year of President Donald Trump’s...

20.02.2026 20

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

More Pushback on AI and Interest Rates

I’ve said a couple of times that the currently fashionable argument that AI will let us have lower interest rates without inflation is likely wrong....

18.02.2026 30

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Government Benefits for Parents Are a Longstanding Conservative Policy

Whenever I’ve run into Richard Reinsch’s byline before, it’s been attached to something sensible and illuminating. Much of his essay in the new...

17.02.2026 30

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

An Interest-Rate Fallacy

I’ve been surprised at how frequently I am seeing people argue that a productivity boom (usually AI is invoked here) will lead the way to lower...

14.02.2026 70

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Americans hated Biden’s economy. And Trump’s?

12.02.2026 20

Washington Post

Ramesh Ponnuru

The Shocking Truth About the Economy

11.02.2026 20

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Chomsky’s Judgments

10.02.2026 10

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Questions for Kevin Warsh

05.02.2026 20

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

The Tax Code Hasn’t Gotten More Pro-Family

05.02.2026 10

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Senators should press Trump’s Fed nominee on these comments

05.02.2026 20

Washington Post

Ramesh Ponnuru

They don’t give an inch. Even when an American is killed.

29.01.2026 150

Washington Post

Ramesh Ponnuru

The Road to Minneapolis

29.01.2026 20

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Yes to Pro-Life Realism, No to Pro-Life Defeatism

28.01.2026 20

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Trumpism? It hardly exists.

22.01.2026 50

Washington Post

Ramesh Ponnuru

Credit Card Caps and Paternalism

14.01.2026 20

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

A Test for Pro-Lifers

10.01.2026 20

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Trump’s Bets in Venezuela

08.01.2026 20

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Fear of Impeachment

08.01.2026 20

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Trump may regret bypassing Congress on Venezuela

08.01.2026 60

Washington Post

Ramesh Ponnuru

A Myth About Andrew Jackson

07.01.2026 30

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

‘An Unbearable Cost’

30.12.2025 30

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

FDR and California’s ‘Wealth Tax’

29.12.2025 20

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

How Much Does the Battle for the U.S. House Matter?

24.12.2025 30

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru