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Bulwark

The Bulwark is an American online publication and podcast network specializing in political analysis and opinion, founded in December 2018 by Republican strategist Sarah Longwell alongside commentators Bill Kristol and Charlie Sykes as a platform for Never Trump conservatives.^[1]^[2] Emerging from the closure of The Weekly Standard, it positions itself as a defender of liberal democracy against perceived threats from populism and authoritarianism, particularly during Donald Trump's presidency and beyond.^[3]^[2] The outlet features regular contributors such as Tim Miller, Jonathan V. Last, and Sam Stein, producing daily newsletters, podcasts like The Bulwark Podcast, and video content critiquing Republican shifts toward Trump-aligned policies while advocating for institutional norms and fiscal conservatism.^[3]^[4] It has grown significantly in reach, becoming a top Substack bundle and YouTube presence among anti-Trump audiences, including some Democrats, with millions of podcast downloads and expanded coverage of elections and cultural issues.^[4]^[5] Notable for its role in the anti-Trump resistance, The Bulwark has coordinated with groups like Defending Democracy Together—its affiliated 501(c)(4)—to mobilize opposition, though it has faced accusations from Trump supporters of prioritizing personal attacks over substantive conservatism and lacking a post-Trump vision.^[1]^[2] Funding ties, including grants to affiliates from entities like the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, have fueled criticisms of alignment with progressive interests despite its center-right branding.^[1] Its influence peaked during the 2020 and 2024 election cycles, where it amplified calls for Republican defections and institutional accountability.^[5]^[6]

Etymology and Definitions

Historical Origins

The word bulwark originated from Middle Dutch bolwerc or Middle Low German bolwerk, and Middle High German bolwerc, literally denoting "bole-work" or a structure built from tree trunks and planks, initially describing rudimentary fortifications constructed from timber in defensive engineering.^[7] ^[8] This Low Countries and Germanic terminology reflected practical responses to evolving threats in late medieval warfare, where such barriers supplemented stone walls against infantry assaults and early gunpowder weapons.^[7] The term entered Middle English around 1418, as recorded in the chronicle Gesta Henrici Quinti, where it denoted a rampart or outlying fortification, emphasizing its role in siege defense amid the Hundred Years' War's tactical innovations, including cannon deployment that necessitated earth-and-timber reinforcements for empirical resilience against bombardment.^[9] Early attestations in English military texts, such as those chronicling continental campaigns, highlight bulwarks as engineered countermeasures to verifiable siegecraft advancements, prioritizing layered defenses over singular walls to mitigate breaching risks from artillery and sapping.^[7] By the 16th century, usage extended to naval architecture, with bulwarks appearing in treatises on shipbuilding as raised wooden sides protecting crews from boarding actions and swells, as evidenced in English translations of Italian and Dutch maritime manuals that adapted the term for vessel hull extensions tested against empirical maritime hazards like storms and combat.^[8] This literal application gradually informed figurative senses in 17th- and 18th-century statecraft writings, where bulwarks symbolized institutional safeguards against existential threats, though rooted in observable defensive efficacy rather than abstract ideology.^[7]

Core Meanings and Evolution

The term "bulwark" denotes a solid, wall-like defensive structure, such as a rampart or embankment, engineered to resist assaults by providing a physical barrier. Merriam-Webster defines it as "a solid structure like a wall built for defense: rampart."^[8] This literal sense emphasizes structural integrity and enclosure, rooted in materials like earth or stone that absorb and deflect kinetic forces from projectiles or infantry. The Oxford English Dictionary corroborates this as a "defensive wall," highlighting its role in fortification systems where causality derives from mass and height impeding enemy advance.^[9] In maritime engineering, the meaning extends to the vertical extension of a ship's hull above the main deck, forming an enclosing barrier to shield against seawater incursion, heavy swells, and boarding actions. Dictionary.com describes bulwarks as "a solid wall enclosing the perimeter of a weather or main deck for the protection of persons or objects on deck."^[10] This adaptation maintains the original protective causality—preventing breach through solidity—but applies it to hydrodynamic and tactical threats, with plating or planking reinforced to withstand lateral impacts from waves or combatants.^[11] Semantically, "bulwark" evolved by the late 18th century into a figurative descriptor for any resilient safeguard or mainstay against disruption, abstracting from physical to institutional or principled defenses. Edmund Burke invoked it in Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) to portray elements of the British constitution as bulwarks upholding order amid revolutionary chaos, attributing to them a stabilizing force akin to literal ramparts.^[12] Merriam-Webster recognizes this as "a strong support or protection," evidencing the shift where the term's connotation of unyielding resistance transfers to non-material contexts like legal frameworks or traditions countering entropy or tyranny.^[8] Distinctions from near-synonyms underscore structural and functional nuances: unlike a "rampart," which prioritizes elevation for vantage and firing platforms, a bulwark stresses low-profile solidity for comprehensive containment against penetration.^[13] In contrast to a "breakwater," engineered solely to fracture wave momentum via dispersion, bulwarks incorporate multi-causal resilience for both natural and adversarial pressures, as seen in historical defensive engineering where integration with terrain amplified barrier efficacy.^[14]

Architectural and Defensive Applications

Fortifications and Ramparts

Bulwarks, as fortifications, consist of elevated ramparts or earthen embankments reinforced with stone or timber, designed to absorb impacts from siege engines while enabling defenders to deliver flanking fire through embrasures or parapets. These structures typically featured sloped faces to deflect projectiles and integrated bastions—protruding platforms that extended fields of fire—maximizing causal effectiveness against infantry assaults by creating dead zones for attackers. In medieval contexts, bulwarks extended castle walls, as seen in 15th-century European designs where earthworks up to 10 meters high provided layered defense, empirically proven to prolong sieges by forcing attackers into costly escalades.^[15] Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban's 17th-century innovations in trace italienne or star forts exemplified advanced bulwark engineering, with angular bastions replacing linear walls to counter artillery by dispersing impact and enabling crossfire; his systems, built for Louis XIV, incorporated glacis slopes and counterscarps, reducing breach vulnerabilities through geometric precision that extended defensive efficacy in conflicts like the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714). Empirical data from Vauban's 300+ fortified sites show they withstood prolonged bombardments, as static defenses channeled attackers into kill zones, though requiring massive labor—up to 20,000 workers per fort—and logistical support for maintenance.^[16]^[17] During the 1453 Siege of Constantinople, the city's triple-layered Theodosian Walls, functioning as composite bulwarks with moats and towers, delayed Ottoman forces for 53 days despite Mehmed II's 120+ cannons firing up to 1,000 shots daily, demonstrating ramparts' capacity to mitigate gunpowder's destructive force through redundancy and repair efforts that sealed breaches temporarily. However, 16th-century European sieges, such as those in the Italian Wars (1494–1559), exposed bulwarks' systemic flaws against improved field artillery; stone facings shattered under sustained bombardment, as evidenced by French forces breaching Milanese walls in 1515, prompting a shift to low-profile earthworks that dissipated explosive energy better than vertical masonry. This transition highlighted causal limitations: static bulwarks excelled in pre-gunpowder attrition but faltered against mobile cannon trains, yielding higher defender casualties—often 50% in breached forts—without adaptive countermeasures.^[18]^[19] By the 20th century, bulwarks evolved into reinforced concrete bunkers, as in the Maginot Line (1930s), which integrated machine-gun embrasures and anti-tank obstacles but proved causally inadequate against maneuver warfare; German Blitzkrieg tactics in 1940 bypassed these static defenses via Ardennes penetration, underscoring overreliance on fortifications ignores mobility's primacy, where empirical outcomes favor rapid encirclement over positional holds, rendering bunkers relics in fluid conflicts dominated by air and armored forces.^[20]^[21]

Nautical Bulwarks

In nautical architecture, bulwarks constitute the vertical extension of a ship's hull plating or planking above the weather deck, functioning as a protective barrier to prevent crew members, passengers, and deck cargo from inadvertently falling overboard while also deflecting waves to minimize water ingress during high seas. This design enhances hydrodynamic stability by shedding excess water rapidly, reducing the risk of deck flooding that could impair vessel handling or capsize smaller craft in rough conditions. Typically constructed of light materials not intended for primary structural support, bulwarks integrate with freeing ports and scuppers to facilitate drainage, thereby maintaining operational efficiency without significantly increasing drag.^[11]^[22]^[23] In Age of Sail vessels, such as 16th- and 17th-century galleons, bulwarks played a critical tactical role by elevating the ship's sides to shield gunners and crew from enemy small-arms fire and boarding parties during broadside exchanges, with gun ports cut directly into their structure to enable coordinated cannon volleys. Their substantial height—often exceeding 6 feet (1.8 meters) above deck—provided partial concealment for reloading operations amid smoke and chaos, deterring close assaults that were common in line-of-battle tactics. However, wooden bulwarks offered limited defense against solid shot, as impacts frequently shattered planks into splinters that caused grievous wounds, underscoring their causal limitation in prolonged gunnery duels.^[24]^[25] The Battle of Trafalgar on October 21, 1805, exemplifies these dynamics: British ships-of-the-line, with bulwarks averaging 7-8 feet (2.1-2.4 meters) high, effectively hampered French and Spanish boarding maneuvers by complicating grapnel attachments and exposing attackers to overhead fire, contributing to the Royal Navy's decisive tactical superiority without a single successful enemy boarding. Yet, against 24- and 32-pounder cannon fire, the structures splintered catastrophically, driving fragments across decks and accounting for a substantial portion of the 458 killed and 1,208 wounded among British forces—demonstrating how bulwarks amplified lethality from indirect effects despite their utility in melee threats.^[26] Following the Crimean War demonstrations of explosive shells in the 1850s, naval engineering shifted toward ironclads, where bulwarks incorporated armored plating—initially 4.5-inch (114 mm) wrought iron over teak backing—to withstand shellfire, as seen in France's Gloire launched in 1859. This evolution prioritized hydrodynamic sleekness with lower profiles to reduce windage and improve steam propulsion efficiency, while armored extensions protected against raking fire in low-freeboard designs, markedly boosting survivability in fleet actions like Hampton Roads in 1862, where unarmored wooden peers disintegrated under similar barrages.^[27]^[28]

Named Places and Vessels

Geographical Locations

Bulwark Camp, located adjacent to the modern residential area of Bulwark in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales, consists of the remains of a late Iron Age promontory fort positioned on a cliff overlooking the River Wye estuary.^[29] The site's defensive features include natural cliffs to the east, a ravine to the south, and artificial double ramparts with ditches on the western and northern sides, exploiting the promontory's strategic elevation for oversight of riverine approaches.^[30] This configuration underscores the empirical selection of terrain that combined topographic barriers with constructed earthworks to deter incursions, a pattern evident in prehistoric fortifications along Britain's coastal borders. The Earith Bulwark, situated in Cambridgeshire, England, approximately 150 meters north of Earith Bridge along the Hundred Foot Washes, represents a well-preserved English Civil War fieldwork constructed by Parliamentarian forces in 1643.^[31] Comprising a square earthwork enclosure with bastioned angles, ramparts, and an encircling moat, it was engineered to control a critical fenland causeway and river crossing linking Huntingdonshire to the Isle of Ely, enhancing defensive control over marshy terrain vulnerable to surprise maneuvers.^[32] Recent flooding in January 2021 delineated the moat's outline, confirming the fort's robust geometry designed for artillery placement and sustained resistance.^[33] These locations exemplify the application of "bulwark" nomenclature to sites where natural geography—such as cliffs, rivers, or wetlands—was augmented by man-made ramparts to form causal barriers against historical threats, from tribal raids in antiquity to organized military campaigns in the 17th century.^[31]^[29]

Ships and Maritime Namesakes

Several ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Bulwark, reflecting the tradition of naming vessels after defensive structures to symbolize protection and resilience in maritime warfare.^[34] The earliest recorded was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched on 23 April 1807 at Portsmouth Dockyard, which served during the Napoleonic Wars before being broken up in 1826.^[35] One of the most tragic losses occurred with HMS Bulwark (1899), a London-class pre-dreadnought battleship laid down on 20 March 1899 at Devonport Dockyard, launched on 18 October 1899, and completed in April 1902. Displacing 16,350 long tons and armed with four 12-inch guns, she served as flagship of the Home Fleet's Reserve Division and participated in routine patrols before World War I. On 26 November 1914, while anchored in the Medway Estuary off Sheerness and loading ammunition, she was destroyed by a massive internal explosion, likely caused by overheated cordite charges adjacent to a boiler room bulkhead, killing 788 of her crew with debris scattered up to six miles away; only 14 survived.^[36]^[37]^[38] HMS Bulwark (R08), a Centaur-class light fleet aircraft carrier of 22,000 tons launched on 22 June 1948 at Harland and Wolff, Belfast, was initially commissioned as a conventional carrier on 4 November 1954 before conversion to a commando carrier in 1958–1960, recommissioning on 19 January 1960 as the Royal Navy's first such vessel. She supported amphibious operations, including landings in Kuwait in 1961, Borneo confrontations in the 1960s, and evacuations during the Aden withdrawal in 1967, embarking Royal Marine Commandos and helicopters for troop transport. Decommissioned on 15 November 1981 after NATO exercises, she was scrapped at Devonport in 1984.^[39]^[35] The most recent HMS Bulwark (L15) is an Albion-class landing platform dock, ordered in 1996, launched on 29 November 2001, and commissioned on 10 December 2004, with a displacement of 19,560 tonnes and capacity for 256 Royal Marines, 67 vehicles, and four landing craft. Designed for amphibious assaults, disaster relief, and humanitarian missions, she deployed to the Mediterranean, Caribbean for hurricane response, and Gulf regions for counter-piracy and training. In September 2025, she was sold to the Brazilian Navy for incorporation in 2026, marking the end of her Royal Navy service amid capability reviews.^[35]^[40]^[41] No prominent non-British naval vessels named Bulwark have entered service, though merchant and auxiliary ships have occasionally adopted the name in line with English maritime nomenclature emphasizing fortitude.^[34]

Modern and Metaphorical Uses

Media and Publications

The Bulwark is an online news and opinion platform founded in December 2018 by Sarah Longwell, with initial editorial support from Bill Kristol and Charlie Sykes, following the closure of the neoconservative magazine The Weekly Standard.^[5]^[42] Originally conceived as a hub for conservative voices critical of Donald Trump, it absorbed several Weekly Standard alumni, including managing editor Jonathan V. Last, and positioned itself as a defender of liberal democracy against what its founders described as authoritarian tendencies in the Republican Party.^[42]^[6] The outlet produces articles, podcasts, and newsletters focused on political analysis, often critiquing populism and Trump-aligned policies while advocating for institutional norms and democratic principles.^[3] Its flagship The Bulwark Podcast, hosted by Tim Miller since 2019, features daily discussions on current events from a perspective aligned with the "Never Trump" movement, garnering over 10,000 reviews on platforms like Apple Podcasts by 2025.^[43] Additional audio content includes The Next Level with Longwell, Miller, and Last, emphasizing banter and insight into Republican dynamics. Newsletters distributed via Substack cover topics like election integrity and policy critiques, contributing to subscriber growth exceeding 100,000 paid Bulwark+ members by July 2025, more than double the figure from late 2023.^[44]^[45] Operationally independent after initial nonprofit ties through Longwell's Defending Democracy Together, The Bulwark shifted to a for-profit model emphasizing original reporting and multimedia, including YouTube videos that boosted visibility during the 2024 election cycle.^[46] It endorsed opposition to Trump in 2020 via affiliated efforts and critiqued election denialism in 2022, urging support for candidates upholding 2020 election results over primary challengers backed by Trump.^[47]^[48] By 2025, the platform ranked among Substack's top news publications, reflecting audience expansion beyond traditional conservatives to those disillusioned with partisan extremes.^[4]^[5]

Commercial Brands

Bulwark Protection is a leading manufacturer of flame-resistant (FR) apparel designed primarily for workers in high-risk industries such as utilities, oil and gas, and electrical services.^[49] The brand originated in 1971 with the launch of FR workwear under the Red Kap label, evolving into Bulwark by focusing on durable cotton garments introduced in 1987 that maintain FR properties through laundering.^[50] Over 50 years, Bulwark has developed products including shirts, pants, coveralls, jackets, and bib overalls using fabrics like Excel FR ComforTouch and CoolTouch 2, which undergo compliance testing for standards such as NFPA 2112 for flash fire protection and NFPA 70E for arc-rated clothing.^[51] These garments are positioned for environments involving arc flash and flash fire hazards, with the company claiming status as the world's largest FR apparel producer by selection breadth.^[52] FR clothing from Bulwark and similar brands reduces workplace burn injuries by preventing ignition of ordinary fabrics during electrical incidents; approximately 80% of electrical injuries involve burns from arc flash igniting flammable clothing, per industry data.^[53] The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) emphasizes that most arc flash burns result from ignited clothing rather than direct arc exposure, underscoring FR apparel's role in limiting injury severity by self-extinguishing and providing thermal protection barriers calibrated to incident energy levels in calories per square centimeter.^[54] In utility and petrochemical sectors, where arc flash incidents can exceed 1,000°C, such gear has contributed to declining injury rates through mandatory PPE protocols, though empirical outcomes depend on proper fit, maintenance, and integration with engineering controls.^[55] Beyond Bulwark Protection's dominance in FR workwear, the "Bulwark" trademark appears in limited other commercial contexts, such as registered marks for general apparel and protective items by Imagewear Apparel Corp., but lacks significant market presence in non-safety tools or unrelated sectors.^[56] Primary applications remain tied to industrial safety gear, with no verifiable data indicating substantial adoption outside hazard mitigation apparel.^[57]

Political and Ideological Symbolism

In conservative political rhetoric, institutions such as the family and the U.S. Constitution have been depicted as essential bulwarks against moral decay and tyrannical overreach, with structures like federalism and checks and balances engineered to constrain centralized power through decentralized authority.^[58] This framing draws on first-principles reasoning that stable social units and enumerated limits on government prevent erosion of individual agency, as evidenced by historical outcomes where constitutional adherence correlated with sustained liberty post-founding. Geopolitically, NATO was founded in 1949 explicitly as a bulwark against Soviet aggression, enabling collective defense that deterred direct incursions and contributed to the containment policy's role in the Soviet Union's 1991 collapse without kinetic escalation in Western Europe.^[59] Similarly, Israel has been positioned by analysts as a frontline bulwark against Islamist expansionism, disrupting terror networks and sharing intelligence that has thwarted Western plots, thereby extending causal security benefits beyond its borders.^[60] Left-leaning discourse occasionally employs "bulwark" to characterize state interventions like expansive welfare systems as defenses against inequality, positing redistributive policies as stabilizers for market failures. Yet empirical analyses reveal intergenerational welfare dependency, where parental disability insurance participation raises adult children's uptake by 12 percentage points over a decade, fostering cycles that correlate with reduced labor force attachment and persistent poverty traps rather than upward mobility.^[61] Such outcomes challenge causal claims of net empowerment, as longitudinal data from reforms like the 1996 U.S. welfare changes demonstrate decreased long-term reliance only when paired with work requirements, underscoring how unconditional aid can inadvertently entrench reliance.^[62] Controversies arise in applying "bulwark" to borders and free speech amid immigration pressures, where proponents view physical and legal barriers as vital defenses preserving national cohesion against demographic shifts and cultural dilution. U.S. southern border encounters surged post-2021, with roughly 60 percent of recent immigrants entering unauthorized, yielding net migration of 2.8 million in 2023-2024 alone and associated fiscal strains exceeding baseline projections for spending on services.^[63]^[64] Mainstream outlets, often critiqued for left-leaning biases minimizing threat narratives, frame such rhetoric as xenophobic, yet verifiable spikes in unauthorized crossings—coupled with downstream effects like localized resource overloads—support arguments for fortified borders as pragmatic causal deterrents over open policies that empirically amplify inflows. In free speech debates, the First Amendment serves as an ideological bulwark against censorship, countering institutional encroachments documented in cases where tech platforms deplatformed dissenting voices, thereby preserving discourse pluralism essential for self-correction in democracies.^[62]

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Remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference Luncheon
Feb 20, 1987 · Two centuries ago the Americans who were the bulwark of the cause of liberty and independence -- who backed up the Hancocks, the Jeffersons, and ...Missing: rhetoric | Show results with:rhetoric
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What Is NATO? | Council on Foreign Relations
Founded in 1949 as a bulwark against Soviet aggression, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) remains, seventy-six years later, the pillar of US-Europe ...
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The October 7 Jihad: A Test for the West
Oct 7, 2025 · Israel stands as the bulwark against Islamic extremism's assault on the West. U.S. backing yields dividends in intelligence that foils plots at ...
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Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Dependency | NBER
When parents are awarded DI, the likelihood that one of their adult children will participate in DI rises by 12 percentage points over the next decade. The ...
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Welfare Dependence, Revisited | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
Apr 6, 2023 · One of the key goals of US welfare reforms enacted a generation ago was to reduce families' long-term dependence on benefits. It's easy to understand why.
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Recent Immigration Surge Has Been Largest in U.S. History
Dec 12, 2024 · About 60 percent of immigrants who have entered the country since 2021 have done so without legal authorization, according to a Goldman Sachs ...
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Improved Method Better Estimates Net International Migration Increase
Dec 19, 2024 · The US Census Bureau announced that a net of 2.8 million people migrated to the United States between 2023 and 2024. This is significantly higher than our ...