A view of the Voice of America building, a day after more than 1,300 of the employees of the media broadcaster, which operates in almost 50 languages, were placed on leave in Washington, D.C., March 16, 2025.
In a case of unilateral disarmament in the propaganda war, the Trump administration functionally mothballed the U.S. Agency for Global Media.
If you press Donald Trump’s most ardent fans to describe what they mean when they say, “make America great again,” you’ll get a lot of answers. Drill down on the phrase’s chronological implications, however -- “again” most certainly suggests that there was a point at which America was great and is no longer -- and you’re likely to get an earful about a bygone age in which America was confident in itself, its values, and its national mission. The MAGA Right has a point there.
Over the post-war decades, it became fashionable among the sophisticate set to cast aspersions on the ...
Noah Rothman is a senior writer at National Review. He is the author of The Rise of the New Puritans: Fighting Back against Progressives’ War on Fun and Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America. @NoahCRothman