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<title><![CDATA[Christopher Caldwell - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15101.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Christopher Caldwell]]></description><category domain="15101">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Why the AfD Wins]]></title>
							<link>https://firstthings.com/why-the-afd-wins/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Three weeks before the German state of Sachsen-Anhalt went to the polls to elect a new legislature on September 6, Germany's leading news magazine, Der Spiegel, ran a cover story]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Deeper Look at the Rise of the Deep State]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.com/article/deep-state-richard-nixon/?edition=us&amp;rcp=true</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Americans took a break from their partisan vituperation in February to mull over newly revealed testimony that Richard Nixon gave to grand jury investigators in 1975, a year after the Watergate scandal drove him from power. James Rosen, a veteran Washington journalist and the biographer...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Rhetoric Will Shape the Future]]></title>
							<link>https://tomklingenstein.com/trumps-rhetoric-will-shape-the-future/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The unique way the president-elect relates to voters taps into something powerful, and could have massive political effects.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Unraveling of the Biden Coalition]]></title>
							<link>https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-unraveling-of-the-biden-coalition/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joe Biden is skulking away from the presidency as furtively as he entered and occupied it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Great Comeuppance]]></title>
							<link>https://thespectator.com/topic/great-comeuppance-economy-silicon-valley-bank/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Great Recession of 2008 was an economic phenomenon. One of these days we're going to get the Great Comeuppance]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Complications of the Russia-Ukraine War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theepochtimes.com/complications-of-the-ukraine-war_4804575.html?utm_source=epochHG&amp;utm_campaign=rcp</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[According to what we hear from the White House and from the television networks, the issues at stake in the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Ukraine'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' War are simple.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Are We in Ukraine?]]></title>
							<link>https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/why-are-we-in-ukraine/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A steep bill comes due for decades of democracy promotion.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inflation Is No Accident]]></title>
							<link>https://compactmag.com/article/inflation-is-no-accident</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Biden is hanging on to Vladimir Putin for dear life. Earlier this month, he estimated that Vlad the Invader was responsible for 70 percent of the latest wave of inflation to roll over the United States.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Is Back...to Bush-Like Incompetence]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/back-in-the-usa/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA['America is back' is the jingle under which the Biden administration has been conducting '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' or marketing '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' its post-Trump, post-Covid diplomacy]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can There Ever Be a Working-Class GOP?]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/161113/republican-working-class-agenda-hawley-rubio</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The party of the country club tries to embrace a new egalitarian economic agenda.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is It Racist to Disagree With Ibram Kendi?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2020/08/10/ibram-x-kendi-prophet-of-anti-racism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He says we must fight discrimination with discrimination, and that it's racist to disagree.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mass Immigration and the Inequality Problem]]></title>
							<link>https://quillette.com/2020/04/06/immigration-and-inequality-a-book-excerpt/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A big problem with the mass immigration that began in the United States in the 1970s was that it bred inequality. Its role in creating the highly stratified American social structure of the twenty-first century was as significant as that of other factors more commonly blamed: information...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Hasn't Brexit Happened?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.claremont.org/crb/article/why-hasnt-brexit-happened-yet/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The British constitution in crisis.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hungary and the Future of Europe]]></title>
							<link>https://www.claremont.org/crb/article/hungary-and-the-future-of-europe/#.XNLLS7OJO4Y.mailto</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Viktor Orb'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¡').';'n's escalating conflict with liberalism.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Did Nonbelievers Grieve for Notre-Dame?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/opinion/sunday/notre-dame.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Religion goes on, whether or not people honor its traditions.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Europe Thinks of Brexit]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/europe-britain-brexit-bless/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why the EU still doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t understand the 2016 referendum result]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Europe Is a Continent in Crisis]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/europe-continent-high-vis-jackets/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Outside their prosperous cities, the hinterlands of France, Germany, Italy and beyond are hitting back]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Are Americans Unhinged Over Christmas?]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/americans-unhinged-christmas/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 19ft Christmas tree and 300lb gingerbread house are quintessentially American]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Is Populism?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.claremont.org/crb/article/what-is-populism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Le monde, the French newspaper of record, admitted last summer that readers had been complaining about the indiscriminate way its journalists flung around the word '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'populist.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kavanaugh Conservatives vs. Booker Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/christopher-caldwell/kavanaughs-opening-statement-is-the-defining-speech-of-our-time</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Years from now, perhaps only days from now, when people are no longer quite so inebriated with partisanship, those who wish Brett Kavanaugh well and those who wish him ill will probably agree on one thing: His defiant September 27 statement denying the charges leveled against him in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Opioids in the Suburbs]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/opioids-in-the-suburbs/article/2011226</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In nine days in early December, eight young people died of overdoses in Fairfax County, Va., the second-richest of the 3,007 counties in the United States. Mass events like these happen frequently and in all sorts of places. A half-dozen people died in the small Rhode Island town of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Spain Come Apart?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/catalanguish/article/2009967</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Panamanian dictator Omar Torrijos, who in the 1970s won the Panama Canal back for his country, used to tell less successful Latin American leaders that the United States is like a monkey on a chain. You can play with the chain all you like'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??but if you play with the monkey, you'll...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Merkel's Immigration Hangover: Germany Turns Right]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-germans-turn-right/article/2009880</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BerlinAngela Merkel's time as leader of the West, to use the honorific the New York Times and CNN bestowed on her, lasted about eight months'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??roughly from the swearing-in of Donald J. Trump in January until people began throwing tomatoes at her during a September campaign...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Merkel Makes an Enemy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/merkel-makes-an-enemy/article/2008317</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Not since 2011, when Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi was captured on a wiretap disparaging the size of her backside, has Angela Merkel suffered so grievously from the boorishness of allies. Donald Trump, on his first diplomatic visit to Europe, strong-armed the prime minister of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Japan Returns - to Find China on the Doorstep]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/japan-returns/article/2008225</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[TokyoIt is not yet obvious that the dominant political leader of the Age of Donald Trump will be Donald Trump. Others are vying for that distinction, including Theresa May of Britain and Shinzo Abe of Japan. Like Trump, Abe came to power on a claim that his country's economy had been...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In France, an Insider's Outsider]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/an-insiders-outsider/article/2007825</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You could tell the European political establishment had taken a shine to 39-year-old French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron by the number of articles in which he was referred to as both a centrist and an outsider. Angelique Chrisafis, of Britain's Guardian, even called him a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The French, Coming Apart]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/html/french-coming-apart-15125.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The real-estate market in any sophisticated city reflects deep aspirations and fears. If you had a feel for its ups and downs'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'if you understood, say, why young parents were picking this neighborhood and drunks wound up relegated to that one'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'you could make a killing in property,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Think About Vladimir Putin]]></title>
							<link>https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/think-vladimir-putin/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin is a powerful ideological symbol and a highly effective ideological litmus test. He is a hero to populist conservatives around the world and anathema to progressives. I don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t want to compare him to our own president, but if you know enough about what a given American...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[American Carnage: Our National Opioid Epidemic]]></title>
							<link>https://www.firstthings.com/article/2017/03/american-carnage</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA["We should all be dead,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' said Jonathan Goyer one bright morning in January as he looked across a room filled with dozens of his coworkers and clients. The Anchor Recovery Community Center, which Goyer helps run, occupies the shell of an office building in Pawtucket, Rhode Island....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Barack to the Future]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/barack-to-the-future/article/2006148</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Caldwell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They are keening in the Bay Area. Oh, America, what have we done? wrote a San Bruno reader to the San Francisco Chronicle the week after November's election. Many of us feel for President Obama, especially as we watch him gracefully support Donald Trump's transition, knowing Trump's...]]></description>
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