Cure for America’s Socialist Mania: Prosperity
America, President Donald Trump vowed during his State of the Union in February, “will never be a socialist country.” Well, we have some good news […]
Adding a Citizenship Question to the U.S. Census Could Affect Future Elections. So?
Citizenship matters. Or, at least it used to. The question of who is a citizen and who is not is at the foundation of what […]
Roger Kimball Wins the 2019 Bradley Prize
Our friend Roger Kimball—editor and publisher of The New Criterion and Encounter Books, and a regular contributor to these pages—is one of three recipients of […]
Clarity About Clearances Revisited (Updated)
The scandal du jour is a claim by a “White House whistleblower” that the Trump Administration overruled the recommendations of various agencies and granted top-secret […]
Mueller Report: ‘No Collusion’; Media Self-Immolates
Attorney General Bill Barr on Sunday afternoon released a summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on alleged collusion between the 2016 Trump presidential campaign […]
Victor Davis Hanson Essentially Called It in February
Robert Mueller’s investigation is done. There will be no more indictments and the existing indictments have nothing to do with his warrant—namely, claims that Donald […]
‘For the People’ Is a Censorship Bill, Plain and Simple
[fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] [fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] Campaign finance reform is all about “getting money out […]
A Republic, Not a Giant H.R. Department
How dumb is the 2020 presidential election campaign going to be? Unfathomably dumb. Breathtakingly dumb. Seriously; pretty dumb. And that’s just among the mainstream candidates. […]
Some Best Possible Outcomes of the Shutdown
The longest-lasting partial federal government shutdown in U.S. history affords President Trump the opportunity to kill off an over-the-hill political spectacle, drain some of the […]
Romney Is Wrong About the President and the Presidency
Oh, great. Mitt Romney is lecturing us about character and decency now. The new year is already shaping up to be a hectoring and annoying […]
Missing Dad and Taking Stock This Christmas
This will be the second Christmas holiday without my father. Although I miss him every day—we used to talk on the phone, like clockwork, at […]
Selling Political Canned Tuna to Voters Who Don’t Own Can Openers
This is not another opinion column picking on Millennials. I promise. This is, rather, an exhortation to Millennials—to all Americans, really—to think hard and think […]
Understanding the Weird World of California Conservatives
To be conservative in California can be frustrating. Republicans haven’t won a statewide election here in a decade. Conservative policy prescriptions—such as they are—don’t have […]
Requiem for John Cox
In the end, it wasn’t even close. John Cox, the venture capitalist and housing developer from San Diego by way of Chicago, was the third […]
For California Republicans, Political Revenge May Come in a Progressive Package
A case can be made for California Republicans and disaffected conservatives to vote for Kevin de León for U.S. Senate. Note my wording: I’m offering […]
Why Liberals Really Hate Trump
David Gelernter’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today hits on a theme we’ve emphasized here at American Greatness for the better part of two years […]
‘First Man’ Crashes and Burns
Get woke, go broke, as the sages say. Not even a rave review from Vox could save it. Breitbart’s John Nolte delivers the news: First […]
Post-Kavanaugh, the Culture War Will Only Get Worse
Did you hear Hillary Clinton talking about America’s cold civil war the other day? She didn’t call it that, but that’s what she meant. Just […]