Daniel Wiser is a journalist who contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2016, writing on politics and culture. His pieces for the magazine covered topics ranging from conservative political philosophy and the Trump-era Republican Party to English football, including an article on Leicester City's improbable Premier League title.
In 1789, the young Frenchman Charles-Jean-Francois Depont wrote to Edmund Burke and asked for his impression of the nascent French Revolution. Enthusiastic about the revolution, Depont hoped that the British statesman and philosopher would affirm its success. An endorsement, however, was not…
During his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Donald Trump offered a litany of malevolent actors that could be blamed for America's "moment of crisis": "government incompetence" and "leaders who fail their citizens," an Obama administration that has "failed them…
In 1983, Jack Kemp famously rushed to the floor of the U.S. House to condemn soccer as a "European socialist" sport. Lawmakers were then trying to help America host the 1986 World Cup, and the country finally did in 1994. Yet owing in part to this denunciation from the influential congressman and…