Trump, Sanders and the new American populism
These two candidates are shaking up a staid political life. Good.
Read my spiked article in full here.
Takeaways from South Carolina and Nevada
Last night Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton advanced towards securing their respective party nominations for president.
Trump won handily in the Republicans’ primary in South Carolina, taking 32.5% of the vote, ahead of Marco Rubio ...
Articles of note
“Donald Trump, class warrior,” Bloomberg View, by Clive Crook
“Why Trump voters accept the bad with the good,” Washington Examiner, by Byron York
“We now join the US class war already in progress,” Daily Beast, by Joel Kotkin
“Is robust American growth a thing of the past?” Financial Times, ...
Antonin Scalia: defending democracy against judicial agitation
Scalia was right: judges have become too powerful and political.
Read my spiked article in full here.
Articles of note
“Bernie Sanders, closet moderate?” Politico, by Nancy Cook
“Trump’s America,” Wall Street Journal, by Charles Murray
“I can’t hate Donald Trump,” Slate, by Reihan Salam
“‘Sexism has nothing to do with it’: Camille Paglia on Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem — and why New Hampshire women broke for Bernie Sanders,” ...
New Hampshire: rage against the political machine
The rise of Sanders and Trump reflects the decay of the establishment.
Read my spiked article in full here.Recent articles of note
“Trump, Sanders, and the revolt against decadence,” New York Times, by Ross Douthat
“How both parties lost the white working class,” New York Times, by R.R. Reno
“The Clinton system,” New York Review of Books, by Simon Head
“Serf’s up with California’s new feudalism,” Orange County Register, by Joel ...
Takeaways from Iowa
Finally, some real votes, rather than polls.
Going into Iowa, Donald Trump led in the polls and dominated the media coverage, and he hoped that Iowa would be the start of a stampede across the country. ...
Treating Trump supporters like an exotic tribe
The bigotry of elites who sneer at those who back The Donald.
Read my spiked article in full here.
Why The Donald trumps the opposition
The clueless attacks on Trump have fuelled his campaign.
Read my spiked article in full here.
ABOUT SEAN COLLINS
I write about American current affairs for Spiked, the online magazine. I am a native New Yorker, and I divide my time between New York City and upstate New York.
In addition to articles for Spiked, The Australian and other publications, I contributed an essay, "BDS: Demonizing Israel, Destroying Free Speech," for the book Unsafe Space: The Crisis of Free Speech on Campus (2016). I also wrote a chapter on New York City's economy for the book London After Recession: A Fictitious Capital? (2012).
My writings have been cited in American Conservative, Arts & Letters Daily, the Financial Times, Fox News, the Huffington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, the New York Times, Real Clear Politics, and the Times of London, among other media.
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