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FEBRUARY 2016

1. Notes on the Origins and Future of Trumpism  [Off Site]
2. The Twilight of Jeb!  [Off Site]
3. Council on Foreign Relations Embraces Trumpian Trade Policy  [Off Site] 
4. Last Conservative Worth Reading?  [Off Site]
5. Will You Be Taking the Whole Family?  [Off Site]
6. Conservative Politics as an Occupation  [Off Site]
7. The Treason Lobby  [Off Site]
8. Reductio Ad Benitum  [Off Site]
9. Trumpian Philosophy  [Off Site]
10. The Way Conservative Pundits Live Now
11. What Would You Have Us Do?

MARCH 2016

1. Limiting While Rome Burns; First In a Series!  [Off Site]
2. Premature Anti-Trumpism  [Off Site]
3. Trump and the Eclipse of Weberian Politics  [Off Site]
4. Skinny Ties Conservatism: Part I of a Series
5. Trump v. the Ruling Class  [Off Site]
6. Official JAG Drinking Game
7. The Late Republic
8. By His Enemies, Ye Shall Know Him
9. Slouching Toward Caesarism?  [Off Site]
10. Burial on 35th Street*
11. Punditry of Low Character  [Off Site]
12. When Paranoia Is Fully Vindicated
13. Trumpian Trade  [Off Site]
14. Rubio’s Foreign Policy Dream Team  [Off Site]
15. Cleansing Fire
16. Consistency in Politics  [Off Site]
17. When Teacher and the Principal Side with the Bullies  [Off Site]
18. And It Gets Worse  [Off Site]
19. A Pundit of No Character
20. The RFK Option
21. The Frémont Option  [Off Site]
22. Toward a Sensible, Coherent Trumpism  [Off Site]  [Off Site]
23. The Unilateral Disarmament of High-Minded Losers  [Off Site]
24. When There Are No Good Guys  [Off Site]
25. “Propositionism,” Properly Understood
26. The West, In the Conservatory, With A Shotgun In Its Mouth  [Off Site]
27. We Wish We Could Take Credit For This
28. Andy Grove: Trumpist avant la lettre  [Off Site]
29. Understanding the Pundits Better Than They Understand Themselves  [Off Site]
30. Still Have Trouble Grasping Trump’s Appeal?  [Off Site]
31. The Greatness Agenda and the Art of the Possible
32. The Slave Power  [Off Site]
33. Demagogues and Doctrinaires  [Off Site]
34. Trade Deals and the Subprime Bubble? Contra Spengler

APRIL 2016

1. Shepherds, Good and Bad  [Off Site]
2. Daniel Krauthammer's Exceptional Foolishness
3. Something You Won't Read Anywhere Else (and that We Shouldn’t Have Had to Be the Ones to Write)  [Off Site] 
4. Trump Started Losing When He Tried to Sound Like a Conservative
5. What Difference, At This Point, Does It Make?  [Off Site]
6. The Harmonic Convergence of Left and Right
7. A Sign of the Times  [Off Site]
8. We’ve Been Attacked!  [Off Site]
9. Trump as Critic: The Need for a Greatness Agenda  [Off Site]  [Off Site]
10. When History Rhymes  [Off Site]
11. Against the Corrupt Bargain: a Theme for Trump  [Off Site]
12. Small Government Dogma Is the Problem
13. Liberate Max Boot  [Off Site]
14. The Last Conservative Movement
15. Free Trade Does Not Exist  [Off Site]
16. Trump’s Bathroom Break  [Off Site]
17. Ramesh, the Reformicons and The JAGening
18. Hey, Williamson! She Means YOU
19. Brexit: the U.K.’s Greatness Agenda  [Off Site]
20. Blind and Blinder
21. Dissent on Bathrooms
22. The Last (?) Word on Bathrooms
23. Still in the Bathroom  [Off Site]
24. Trump and the Times
25. German Beer's Greatness Agenda  [Off Site]
26. Trumpian Prudence?  [Off Site]
27. The Greatness Agenda and the Art of the Possible: Part II
28. Trump v. the Council on Foreign Relations
29. Trumpian Accomplishments, Part I: The End of Big Data  [Off Site]
30. The Lion and the Lamb  [Off Site]
31. A Litmus Test for “New People”  [Off Site]

MAY 2016

1. The Free Trade Fetish
2. There Is No 'After Trump'
3. Leverage v. “Should” Diplomacy  [Off Site]
4. Guest Post from the Future by Thomas L. Friedman  [Off Site]
5. #NeverClue  [Off Site]
6. Everything Was Awesome  [Off Site]
7. Trump, Sullivan and Caesarism  [Off Site]  [Off Site]
8. To Our “Conservative” Friends
9. Manent on Caesarism
10. NPR: Maybe She Doesn't Have This?  [Off Site]
11. Trump’s First Deal Should be a New Plaza Accord
12. Paleo-Straussianism, Part I: Metaphysics and Epistemology
13. How to Qualify for President
14. FOR Paleo Anti-Hubris
15. NR’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
16. Horse Races and Tea Parties
17. Trump Should Return to the Bathroom
18. Useless Idiots  [Off Site]
19. Restatement on Sulla  [Off Site]
20. The GOP's Grand Bargain Fizzles  [Off Site]
21. Dan Drezner Has a Cold
22. Progress or Return?  [Off Site]
23. Edmund Burke Will Not Save Us
24. “They’re Stupid People”  [Off Site]
25. Requiem for a Third Party
26. Dictatorships and No Standards
27. NR Cruise Postmortem and the JAG Cruise Contest
28. “Enhanced Whack-A-Mole”: An Anti-Terror Strategy for Trump  [Off Site]
29. Trading on One's Strengths  [Off Site]
30. Two (and-a-Half) Cheers for the Neocons  [Off Site] 
31. Reasons for Trump’s Appeal, Part 742  [Off Site]
32. How to Cite JAG
33. The Red Album
34. Poor, Contemptible, Dead: a Trifocal Lense for American Foreign Policy

JUNE 2016

1. Thank You, Peggy!
2. Recommended Reading  [Off Site]
3. Predicting Fascism, Then and Now
4. Hey, Kagan! THIS Is What Real Fascism Looks Like  [Off Site]
5. Addendum on the Liberal International Order  [Off Site]
6. “Must” Punditry
7. Solidaristic Conservatism: A Reply to Ahmari  [Off Site]
8. Trump and the Judge
9. Claremont on Trump
10. The Economic Consequences of Larry Summers Would Be Severe  [Off Site]
11. What's Exceptional about American Exceptionalism?
12. Response to Goldberg
13. Why We Cannot Understand Trump's Rhetoric
14. #Maginot Conservatives  [Off Site]
15. Response to Linker
16. The Poverty of Paul Ryan’s Vision  [Off Site]
17. Who Said It?
18. Some Advice for the #NeverTrump Campaign
19. JAG Categories: A Guide to the Future
20. Notice to Our Readers