President Donald Trump’s proposal for razing and rebuilding Gaza is being hailed by some America First conservatives as another in a line of bold moves which benefit our country, like incorporating Greenland and restoring the Panama Canal. To them, the proposal showcases American free-market can-do and know-how in the hands of a businessman who can succeed where deep state diplomats failed. Glenn Beck exuberantly predicted that, “Thanks to Trump, you could plan your honeymoon destination on the Gaza Strip.” Steve Bannon, while firmly and consistently stating that he wanted America to have...

President Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza, relocating Palestinians and building the Riviera of the Middle East on the land where they lived, managed the rare trick of offending almost everyone. Objections fell along tracks worn into trenches by long warfare. Leftists called it a violation of international law and an insult to Palestinians who define their struggle as one of national self-determination. Conservatives asked for aid for East Palestine, Ohio before Palestine and warned President Trump about embracing neoconservative nation-building. Neoconservative sympathizers like Lindsay Graham,...

Detritus from Joe Biden's administration doesn’t just amount to the obvious—inflation and deficit spending, regulations and wars. There’s also been a more subtle shift off of these failures, affecting who has power in our country and how they’ll use it in the future. Nowhere is the shift less noticed or more definite than in the world of humanitarianism, which has been enriched these past three years by the previous administration’s proxy wars. Since 2022—when the Biden White House responded to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by neither escalating nor defusing but prolonging—a network of...